A text message promising a $60 credit to every Cingular customer who forwards the message to 10 more people is a hoax, AT&T announced on Friday. The message, which resembles a host of chain emails making similar false promises, reads as follows:
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• Fake Text Message Promises Cell Discount - WPDS-TV News
• AT&T Says Text Message Is a Hoax - WYKT-TV News
All cingular customers.. send this message to ten people and Cingular will credit your account 60 dollars"This is an occasional unsolicited messaging spam," AT&T spokesperson Sue Sperry told WPSD-TV News in southern Illinois. "We do everything we can to protect our customers from it. We didn't authorize or send the message, it's a hoax."
Read more about it:
• Fake Text Message Promises Cell Discount - WPDS-TV News
• AT&T Says Text Message Is a Hoax - WYKT-TV News
Comments
An electronic version of a chain letter. Folks who fall for the chain letter scam will clog texting and emails with this bogus claim.
$60.00 would be great as a referral fee, though!
Anytime you come across an instance where a company is willing to straight up give you money you have to ask, Why would they do this?
Hardly any companies (if any) will just give out money for you to send a text message. If this were legit, you would send roughly $2.00 worth of text messages and they give you $60.00
If this were true then they better fire somebody!