[kall]

If you have received a text advising that if you forward it on to 20 people, you will get a vodafone topup of $50, do not foward it on. It is a hoax.

If you have forwarded it on, you are stupid.

'nuff said.

[Lina]

Yeah but sooooooo many ppl fall for it EVERY time.

One of them happens to be my Mom.

[kall]

My dad thought to phone me first to enquire.

A couple of things gave it away:

1) The word 'Original' was totally misspelled, and vodafone wouldn't spell it that way.

2) They are already running a FREE text promotion in the weekends, asking each person to text to 20 others would put a strain on their servers and not be worth it at all.

[Diane]

I get that stuff all the time.. it's always BS.. but apparently the IPod giveaway wasn't a fake..a company that investigates Internet fraud studied them, and it was on the level.. lol first time for everything eh..

[kall]

There was a hack written for vbulletin that made any of those ipod links posted turn into referrals for the board owner.

Heh. That'll teach the spammers.

[Diane]

LOL Nice one!! hehehehe

[CASPERTHEGHOST]

my wife got one yesterday saying if you text to ten people you will recieve A fifty dollar credit so i wonder how many people believe it so someone has nothing better to do than send crap who ever it is just a dick

[Nas]

It makes me wonder about the sanity of the person(s) who start these things!

[Teelo]

Back in May or whenever this happened, I got the message, know it was fake (its obvious, vodafone wouldnt do something that stupid), then forwarded it anyway just cause it didnt cost me squat.