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Ericsson 'Free Laptop' Hoax: The Next Generation

By , About.com GuideMay 12, 2009

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Image: Source unknown, circulating via email

Released today:

"Sony Ericsson has been made aware of an online email campaign claiming that Ericsson will give away a free laptop computer to users who forward the promotional information. The same campaign includes a photograph of the Sony Ericsson logo and mentions an Ericsson contact name and email number. Sony Ericsson confirms that this email campaign is a hoax."

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May 19, 2009 at 1:12 pm
(1) Mrs Lucas says:

Thanks for exposing this hoax to the public. We need to stop looking for free anyhow!
Thanks again.
Mrs G

May 20, 2009 at 12:32 pm
(2) Zakiyyah Muhammad says:

Dear Ericsson,
Thank you for confirming that this email promotion is a hoax. I will pass this to my friends and the person that forwarded to me.

May 26, 2009 at 7:55 am
(3) preetinder virk says:

thanx for making people aware of the hoax

May 26, 2009 at 4:48 pm
(4) Garth says:

Thanks for exposing the Hoax. So when do I get my laptop?

May 27, 2009 at 3:34 pm
(5) Sajeel says:

I don’t think its worth sending because i send it to more then hundred of my friends and still no reply yet. Most importantly, how will they come to know?

June 3, 2009 at 3:24 pm
(6) Karen Roberson says:

Man I knew that was too good to be true, just when I thought I was about to finally get a piece of the pie. I guess I’ll continue to save up for one!!!! Thanks anyway. :(

June 8, 2009 at 9:39 pm
(7) gary says:

Not a very good idea to be leading people on like this as we know there is NO SANTA CLAUSE
when it comes to a freebe like this

July 16, 2009 at 11:17 am
(8) purist says:

Yes- free lap top if you send email to 8, but free good-looking model to sit on your lap- if you send to 18. The female laptop is Sonia, the male laptop is Eric’s son.

In fact I am still feeling the after effects of the incredible bad luck I am experiencing in my life- because I did not forward that religious photograph to 6 friends.

On the bright side Pill Kates- sends me $100 for every 16 people who get the copy of the last email from him. With the money I collected so far- I will be paying for the revival of my friend who is stuck in Canada in the bathtub filled with ice- apparently the girl he was sleeping with that night was actually a very strong kidney broker. She put him to sleep- took out her knife and slashed him (kinky!!)- she cut out both his kidneys stuffed them into the cooler which she had brought with her to the room, then she lifted him- placed him ever so gently into the bathtub- ordered around 10 bags of ice cubes and placed them one by one around him gently ( so that he did not wake up). On the mirror she wrote with her lipstick welcoming him into the world of aids.

Instead of concern for him- I’m really going to find out what he got so high on. Will keep you posted!!

October 6, 2009 at 8:27 pm
(9) Gina says:

man this sucks. stop puttin things like that not cool

October 15, 2009 at 11:29 am
(10) PEACH says:

LOL!!! I told every1 that this was fake aint nothing in this world come free LOL!!!! Wow U would think that they would compinsate every1 for the time they wasted on this HOAX!!!!

October 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm
(11) DDawg says:

Thanks for exposing this. I wish I’d checked here before sending the emails. Oh well.

October 28, 2009 at 1:05 am
(12) Emil says:

Good people, you are capable of so much. These hoaxes live because human beings are made to feel powerless, weak and ineffective in life, so they wait for something to be ‘given’ to them, hoping to ‘win’.

You’re great. Your wonderful.

You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Set your mind to something purposeful. Live well. LIVE!

Peace and blessings to all.

March 8, 2010 at 5:48 am
(13) Heartshaker says:

how can i get free it ????
In Myanmar

September 28, 2010 at 7:55 am
(14) Mansoor Ali Abbasi says:

Oh!! it is fraud of publicity, it’s lie.
so don’t waste the time and they are making foolish to all.

June 16, 2012 at 4:36 pm
(15) joshua says:

Pls I reallY need a piece of laptops

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