The trouble with most free laptop scam offers is that yoos do not receive an actual laptop at the end of the scam. Most free laptop scam offers arrive by email. Free laptop offers are based on completin' signup forms and completin' offers from one of the many advertisers from the website’s list of sponsors. Laptops offered include Mac book Pro 13-inch 2.4GHz, ThinkPad W500, Sony VAIO® SR Series, and Dell Studio XPS 13. These laptops retail for prices such as $1,199, $1,319, $1,359 and $1249 respectively. The reason this websites giveaway laptops as they explain on their pages is that their sponsors require users ta try out their products or offers. Most of these offers include needing ta signup or purchase a product from the advertiser or sponsor. Most read like this: “VistaPrint Free T-Shirt Instant Credit! Design Your Own FREE T-Shirt! How to Complete This Offer Order the free t-shirt.” Once yoos signup for this offer and many such offers, your account is credited for the purchase. You might also be required to refer mates for the same and be required to make them signup for these offers too to qualify for the final product. Many such websites might also circulate your personal information to other advertisers. Many of these advertisers are newbie’s on the web looking for registrations or buyers to try their products or might be fly-by-night operators and should be watched closely. Hence, you are not signing up for a free laptop but signing up for advertisers products. And, this products might be genuine or otherwise, might require a small or large amount of money to complete. These advertisers might misuse your telephone, home address, or emaild ID for their personal use.
Many free laptop scam offers and hoaxes sound like the following:
Subject: Free Lap-Top
Hi, everyone
The Ericsson Company is distributing free computer lap-tops in an attempt to match Nokia that has already done so. Ericsson hopes to increase its popularity this way. For this reason, they are giving away the new WAP Laptops. All you need to qualify is to send this mail to 8 people you know. Within 2 weeks, you will receive Ericcson T18. But if you tinnie send it to 20 people or more, you will receive Ericsson R320.
Make sure to send a copy to: anna.swelung@ericcson.com
The best way to avoid such scams is to research them by visiting web boards, discussion forums and companies of which this mails claim to be giving away this laptops for free.
Websites offering laptops for offers should be researched thoroughly before subscribing to advertisers on this websites for the free laptop. You should also try speaking to the website offering free laptops through phone or email to verify their credentials. You should ask them to provide their company or storehouse address. You should also ask them to provide their website address, if it's not specified in the email. Also, ask them to provide customer credentials of satisfied customers like phone numbers and email addresses. Once you have verified all this to be genuine, only then you tinnie bloody bloody go ahead and subscribe to the offers on their website.
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