The latest laptop scam
@ShirleyBillingsley (1544)
United States
October 16, 2009 9:21am CST
Have you received the lastest lap top scam? I did this morning. A friend of mine sent me the letter, thinking it was good, since her brother sent it to her. It tells you that you will receive a free laptop, by sending the email out to eight more people. Of course, naturally, you will not get a laptop...it's a scam.
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7 responses
@keyonsmommy09 (12)
• United States
16 Oct 09
Anytime something is totally free im always a little secptible, espically since were in a recession.
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@ShirleyBillingsley (1544)
• United States
16 Oct 09
You are totally right, about something being free right now, with the economy the way it is.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
16 Oct 09
I never fool w/things like that. I always figure they are a scam. May miss something good oneof these days.
@ShirleyBillingsley (1544)
• United States
16 Oct 09
I may be wrong, but i don't think you are going to miss out on much, with these scam letters.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Oct 09
hi shirleybillingsley any time an offer sounds too good to
be true it is,belive me. A scam a minute it seems to me,just
open ones email and get a flood of people wanting to give you millions and all you have to do is give them your identity and a goodly sum of money, then of course they run off,and you are out however much money you sent to the scammers. beware of any offer giving you free anything, there is a catch and it will be a nasty
one.
@ShirleyBillingsley (1544)
• United States
16 Oct 09
You are certainly right about that. There is always someone, just waiting on the opportunity to scam someone. It's just terrible.
@srganesh (6340)
• India
22 Dec 09
That is quite cheap for a laptop.Just eight emails and that is enough to get a laptop.The scam people should strain their brains a little more to cheat the people with some believable ideas.The very idea seems to be a fake one and I wonder whoever will fall in prey to this.
@dekada80 (388)
• Philippines
22 Oct 09
not yet but I received dozen of similar scams on my cellphone via text like telling you won this big amount and you have to call this number etc. I just ignore it in the first place I didn't join any contest so why will I won? It's your call any way if you will entertain this kind offers but you should remember that any to good to be true offers like that is more of a scam.
@onida143 (117)
• India
22 Dec 09
yes these days scam mails are comming hevaly saying that u won lottery that this and wasteless stuff one of my friend also recived a mail such that he had one sony laptop and they said to pay 100$ for shifiting charges and he agreed to pay that and they have done evry thing in proffesional manner @ last he had not recived the laptop he had been scammed be aware dont pay any upfronts if any one say u have wone some thing
@suzzy3 (8341)
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17 Oct 09
come across those all the time cannot see the point of this,how can they make anything out of it.Normally a scam is meant to make the perpertrator money.This is just to good to be true.It is like those things that come through the post saying you have won a prize if you ring a premium phone line and give them a code.They collect all the phone money and they sorry you have not won,no prizes at all really just one big con.Thanks for the tip off anyway.
