Emails promising things

[tonyvid]

We are always getting people(women usually) sending these "cute picture, send to 5 people and you will be rich beyond your dreams" emails around at work. Today I had one promising a free Sony Ericsson Lappy if you sent it 8 people and another type if you sent it to 20 people - yeh, right!!! You do have to include an Ericsson.com person into the forwarding.

So what is really happening? We have a pretty clamped down IT system here so I'm not sure how data could be gathered from email traffic.

[dibbers006]

They can't (Excluding Government 'they')

It's Spam.

Ignore them.

[shakotan]

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ericsson-free-lap-top.s...

[ShadownINja]

There are idiots everywhere.

[tonyvid]

shakotan said:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ericsson-free-lap-top.s...

That's the puppy! So what is the point?

[C8PPO]

tonyvid said:

So what is the point?

There is no point whatsoever. These things are sent by unimaginative losers who think the internet is "real". All they really serve is to clog up email systems further and waste time.

My sister had a habit of sending them, and each time she did, I replied to all on circ with a link to Snopes for the relevant explanation (yes, thereby increasing the immediate email traffic level but with the intent of a future decrease). I don't get them from her any more although whether she's just cut me out but continues trying to "save this cute little kitten who will die tonight if we don't get 100,000 people on this circulation list", I don't know.

Edited by C8PPO on Friday 15th May 15:22

[dibbers006]

It is the same as people who create destructive viruses.

As they are not gaining any information it is purely attention wes who get a kick out of chain letter style mail.

The same people who start rumours or read Heat magazine

[ben_reza]

Fair enough the first time, or maybe if you had heard of someone who did get a million pounds off Microsoft, or bumped into a teen nymph in a dark alley on the way home after forwarding one of these mails, but when you have forwarded probably a couple of hundred of these... and not a single one has came true.....

[GTIR]

ShadownINja said:

There are idiots everywhere.

I like Fifth Gear.