Beware Of Offers Claiming You’ve Received A Prize
On of the tons of items that land in my junk mail folder is this little gem that announces in the subject line “You’ve Recevied Dell XPS !!”. In the email itself (which is in html format with remote loading images), The main image shows the laptop with the words “Test and keep a FREE dell laptop”
Going to the site and looking over the rules you find out that this “prize” really isn’t one at all. Not only that but the only place I saw anything about testing a Dell laptop is the text in the email image which is repeated on the site itself.
The TRUTH about how you’re supposed to get this allegedly “Free” laptop is that once you sign up, you have to complete a total of Eight sponsor offers, wait for the advertisers to confirm that you’ve completed their offer, give them your shipping address, possibly have to complete another offer Etc.. etc.
Even after all that, there’s still every chance that one or more of the offers you complete will end up being disqualified. If you manage to avoid that pitfall, then some eight weeks after you give them your shipping address, you finally get the laptop.
The big problem with this kind of “offer” is that in meeting the requirements it is entirely too easy to end up spending as much as or more than what you would have spent just going to Dell and buying the thing outright.
Therefore, my advice is when this kind of email arrives, use your email program’s junk filter to mark it AS junk and let the thing get auto-deleted because, to paraphrase an old tv commercial, “Dude, you are SO not getting a free Dell!“.
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