Nothing for nothing

[patrick]

I am not saying any of you brainy guys would fall for this, but, just to let you know. There is an e-mail chain letter flying around offering free M & S vouchers. This has already been denied by both the firms involved (M & S and persimmon homes)

 

[Chris]

I got that email the other day... I never read into these kinda things so it went straight into my deleted items!

Another pointless post by me again!! Hehe

Chris

 

[Allan Wall]

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my gf forwarded this on the other day lol i thought i had convinced her never to send on chain emails. . . its such a con

 

[steve]

is that the one that promised £500 of vouchers for just 20 emails?

I would have thought that was a warning sign to most people.

just think, if those 20 emailed 20 each, there would be £200,000 of vouchers going out for just 400 people knowing of the offer.

You could probably get kylie to hand deliver 400 leaflets advertising the shop for that much

 

[axle]

Another one going round for sony erikkson. yes spelt like that.

 

[jug]

the bit i really dont get about these chain mail is what the creator gets out of it. whats so great about fooling fools?

 

[Matt]

I got one from a Dell techie?!?! He must've been seeing dollar signs in front of his eyes...moron.

 

[steve]

I'm guessing that they need some sort of revenge against someone.

It usually says to forward the email to 20 people you know and also send a copy to such and such a person (who is supposed to be to originator of the marketing strategy)

Well i suppose a few hundred people would then be stupid enough to believe it and would indeed send a few hundred emails to the poor person listed on the email.

More of an inconvenience to the person recieving the emails than a real problem......but who knows how the minds of the email originators work?