When you get a pop-up saying you can get a free laptop, what's the catch?
2007-02-22 03:38:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
It opened me up to all kinds of Spam. All the way up to solicitations from Nigeria, if you know what I mean. I ended up deleting that account.
2007-02-22 03:43:12 · answer #1 · answered by smoothie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't speak to every incident of this type of offer that is being made ---for I don't know but what there could be a legitimate one out there some where---but--- in most cases this "deal" gets you into the loop of taking "surveys"--- long and very detailed surveys that --- by the time your done--- the people that analyze these things have got you tagged better than your own mother could describe you---- on top of that-- in most cases -- this "free" laptop requires that you sign up for at least one "offer" (if not several) and COMPLETE that "offer" before you "qualify" for the FREE whatever (there are a lot of "bait items" used for this "deal"-- laptops being simply one of a long list of things to draw people in) Thing is here -- these "offers" are usually not cheap by the time everything is said and done--- a lot of the time you have spent as much completing the "offer" as a new laptop would have cost you to begin with !!! AND --- remember all of those SURVEYS you took ?? Now your information and your Email address is in the open market and in the hands of hundreds of Spammers who will start slamming your Email box to overflow night and day ---24 / 7 with more "offers" than you could possibly want --- even if you were an "offer" addict !!!!
The people with this FREE laptop --- have made major money on YOU--- by selling the info on you from the surveys--- from a certain "cut" of the "offers" you have to "complete" AND from the sale of YOUR Email Address to thousands of Spammers around the globe !! This FREE laptop (which is usually a stripped down rebuilt piece of trash that they get at pennys on the dollar) should you ever be "lucky" (?) enough to ever actually GET it---will not be anything NEAR what you were expecting and nowhere near satisfying the original GREED you felt that got you started with these people to begin with !!!!
There is your FREE LAPTOP DEAL IN A NUTSHELL !!!!!!!
2007-02-22 04:08:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
scam. you dont get anything for free anymore in this world... so, if there's anything out there that's free, it's most probably a scam or something..
2007-02-22 03:57:19 · answer #3 · answered by j o s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you operate your machine carefully those pop ups shouldn't come up.
Did you know that's how you get viruses
2007-02-22 16:24:55 · answer #4 · answered by STA-TOW 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a scam.
2007-02-22 03:45:43 · answer #5 · answered by b c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋