Get a $60 Credit on Your Cell Phone Bill
My Friend Just Told Me How to Get a $60 Credit on My Cell Phone Bill!
CINGULAR (THE NEW AT&T)-FREE-MSG. Attention! All Cingular Customers send this message to ten people and Cingular will credit your account $60!
Wow! A $60 credit to my account would certainly be great. After all, having an iPhone means I have to spend a nice chunk of change with AT&T each month. How nice of AT&T to give me back a little of that money. Well, it would be nice if it were true.
Like all messages, email or text, that promise free cash or merchandise for forwarding the message to friends, this one simply is not true. Over the years I've been bombarded with emails from well-meaning friends who've forwarded me emails in the hopes that they would get a free computer from Microsoft or a free gift card from McDonalds.
While this was the first time I've seen this scam as a text, these sort of "forward to 10 people" scams have been around since the birth of email. The truth is companies don't give anything away because you forwarded an email to ten friends. In fact, even if a company wanted to do such a thing (and I can't think of any reason why they would), there's no way to track if you forwarded a particular email and to how many people to which it was forwarded.
So, where do these emails come from? They originate from someone who is looking for a good laugh. They want to see how many people they can fool into forwarding their email. Sometiimes they'll even make them look "official" with company logos or copyright statements. However, no matter how "official" these emails look, the are simply a joke.
Now back to the $60 credit text from my friend. Rather than getting a $60 credit deposited in to my cell phone account my friend, I now owe AT&T for receiving the text to the tune of five cents (I'm over my text limit this month). And you probably owe fifty cents because you sent the text to at least ten people. Oh well, at least when these types of scams are forwarded to me via email it does not cost you or me anything. So, dear friend, if you must include me in these scams, please do so only via email. Oh, and did you get your $60 credit from AT&T? I didn't think so.
Published by Matthew Steed
Live in sunny Orlando, Florida. Love to travel and have lived in Spain, Italy, and New York City. View profile
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