No, actually, I’m just kidding – seriously – don’t send me any emails demanding any free stuff. It has been a while since I last received an email promising me a free mobile phone, but today I once again found a message in my mailbox, offering a brand new Ericson cell phone for free if I forward the email to eight people … I was hoping that the phenomena would be dead by now, but I was proven… wrong!
I wonder about the simplicity of people… Or is it just pure voracity? Bill Gates giving away money, Nokia and Ericsson giving away free mobile phones, the list is endless with ridiculous promises. But it is even more amazing that, since the early days those emails started to arrive, people still haven’t learned the lesson. Unbelievable, but I keep receiving those emails from the same people over and over again. If those initial senders would have kept their promises, my friends would have retired, or at least been able to open up a highly profitable shop for cell phones by now.
But what am I’m talking about? I have spent far more time to write this blog entry then pressing the erase button and sending the email to spam hell.