EMI / Time Warner Merger Contributed by Micki Smallwood, 03/09/00: |
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ALL PLEASE READ THE BELOW EMAIL IF YOU ACTION ASAP YOU WILL RECIEVE
SOME MONEY & MUSIC VOUCHERS
Subject: FW: EMI and Time Warner. Due to the merger between EMI and Time Warner announced yesterday, an unprecendented opportunity to make FREE money and receive FREE gifts has arisen. As you have probably heard, Time Warner recently announced a merger with AOL. AOL is the world's largest Internet Service Provider, and is eager to increase it's market share by providing a Unique Selling Point. Time Warner, AOL and EMI have begun to conduct a feasability study in music delivery via email, and so are collating data on the way in which emails are disseminated between family,collegues and friends. AOL has cleverly encoded this email with a unique identifier, which allows them to track all the senders and recipients. IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU ARE USING AN APPLE MACINTOSH OR PC !! EMI has promised that for every 10 people that you forward this mail too they will send you 10 pounds in record vouchers. Time Warner has promised that for every person that forwards your mail, they will send you a 50 cheque. I must admit that I thought this would be one of those standard internet scams, but yesterday I was emailed by representatives of both EMI and Time Warner asking for my home address. This morning I had both a 10 record voucher to spend at any HMV and a NatWest cheque made out to me for 50 !! If you only send out this mail to as many people as you can then you can also take advantage of this offer. What do you have to lose ??? |
Guide's note: Aside from the accuracy of a couple of surface facts namely that Time Warner, AOL and EMI have merged into a behemoth corporate entity this offer of money and free merchandise is an utter hoax.
AOL did not "cleverly encode" the message with an email tracking "identifier." No such thing exists. Besides which, email chain letters generally circulate to hundreds of thousands if not millions of recipients. No one would want to track them.
This hoax was patterned after a plethora of similar schemes. For previous examples and more information, see:
Current Net Hoaxes
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