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May 14, 2009, 6:18:25 AM5/14/09
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Sent: Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 8:13:20 PM
Subject: RE: Free Laptop from Ericsson

Description: Email hoax
Circulating since: April 2000
Status: False

Analysis: Here's a chain letter that doesn't even make sense on the face of it.  To quote the main premise as stated in the 2007 version of the hoax:


The Ericsson Company is distributing free computer laptops in an attempt to match Nokia that has already done so.


Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but Nokia has never distributed free laptop computers to email forwarders. Nor are they ever likely to do so. Nor is Sony Ericsson.


All you need to do to qualify is to send this mail to 8 people you know. Within 2 weeks, you will receive Ericsson T18.

 

Sounds easy enough and tempting, too, but get this: the Ericsson T18 is a cell phone, not a computer. Moreover, it's a discontinued model. They don't sell it anymore!


But if you can send it to 20 people or more, you will receive Ericsson R320.

 

Again, the Ericsson R320 is a cell phone, not a computer. And discontinued, to boot!

What gives? The email above is slightly revised version of a nine-year-old hoax promising free phones to frequent forwarders. Though the phrase "computer laptops" has been substituted in the newer variant to reel in more suckers, evidently the anonymous prankster who revised the original couldn't be bothered to change the model numbers of the supposed promotional items.

The email address to which copies of the forwarded message are supposed to be sent, anna.s...@ericsson.com, is a corruption of the address specified in the 2000 version of the hoax (anna.s...@ericsson.com), which, of course, was never valid in the first place.

 

 

 

 

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