Mystery Gift ?.

Salt001

I just received a text message telling me I have been chosen to receive a free gift.
The website address includes the word ' sony '.
I have no intention of going near the website but just wondering has anybody else gotten a text like this?.

Biggins

Yes.

IGNORE.

Boombastic

It's a boat.

Colmustard

Yeah mine was for an ipad.

I never opened it either, I just deleted it.

Augmerson

Seems legit.

Mint Sauce

Yes. Its a scam.

Owen_S

Reminds me of the time when I won the Nigerian lottery.

Micky Dolenz

It's how I got my 1st iPhone and my 2nd and 3rd.

IM0

Colmustard wrote: »

Yeah mine was for an ipad.

I never opened it either, I just deleted it.

you mean threw it in the bin

Royal Legend

Salt001 wrote: »

I just received a text message telling me I have been chosen to receive a free gift.
The website address includes the word ' sony '.
I have no intention of going near the website but just wondering has anybody else gotten a text like this?.

Actually sounds ok, try the link and then let us know what happens :rolleyes:

libra02

Yep I got one too claiming to be from Sony. So did other family members

I just deleted it once I read it.

Seems to be going about on the 02 network.

im invisible

Boombastic wrote: »

It's a boat.

the boats a boat, but the Mystery Box could be anything, like a boat!
You know how much we wanted a boat,we'll take the Mystery Box!

Wacker The Attacker

Any meals or blow jobs?

phasers

I've won so many ipads this way. I have so many now I use them as placemats.

Boombastic

This happened to me all the neighbours won a boat except me, I choose the mystery box. Who can resist the call of the mystery box? In the box were tickets to a comedy gig, which I went to. I heckled the comedian and he challenged me to come on stage and try it. I p1ssed myself and fell off the stage.

Just take the boat

Mr.Crinklewood

The gift is a free lift on a Russian bulldozer.

BigBrownBear

Just got it myself.
The sony.ie part of the link intrigued me but I didn't open it:cool:

TheBody

Op, I recommend you burn all your money and then reply to that text.

Amy2010

I got it too, it is too good to be giving away freebies...in a recession!!! Peek at the link out of curiosity, but thrash or "we can’t find your page..."

3ndahalfof6

Yes I did and I replied, I did receive a small Sony disc man, but postage and package was 20 quadrillion squid, they emptied all of my families and friends accounts, as I tried to raise the funds for the postage and package, its a lovely red color and I love it.

Mucky.Bucky

I had a man pr1ck I was involved with text me for my address to send on something small he had for me - a small gift. How nice and kind and thoughtful, I thought. Some time later, and some excuses, then months later and more excuses galore - it was nothing, but excuses.

Why mess with someone's head like that. Feeling sh1te was an understatement. I was destroyed and my head was melted and I was exhausted and felt like sh1te.

aaronjumper

I got one from "Apple" even though I've never purchased or owned one of their products.

All I had to do was log on with some details etc. etc.

Tarkus

Yes, it's a free gift...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGeYt8ONxxA

CreepingDeath

Salt001 wrote: »

I just received a text message telling me I have been chosen to receive a free gift.
The website address includes the word ' sony '.
I have no intention of going near the website but just wondering has anybody else gotten a text like this?.

If you click on some of the SMS spam links within the text messsage (are you an O2 network "pay as you go" customer by any chance?), then it is considered an acknowledge that you want to subscribe to some "We charge €2/€5 per text message" type of service.

If you end up getting scammed by this, the fastest way to stop it and get your money back is to say the phone belongs to someone under 18 who is unable to legally subscribe.

Search for "Zamona" on the Web for an idea of the sort of company that sends these text messages and was fined €200k by regulators.
They operated out of the digital hub in Dublin city centre for a while and spammed O2 customers.
Don't expect O2 to do anything to protect you.

Lawrence1895

It's a Season Ticket for Anfield, isn't it?

Teyla Emmagan

Got two of these this week. It's doing the rounds on 3 now.

I do feel like a winner though, so it's been good for my self confidence. And obviously, a great omen for Friday night's Euromillions. Third time lucky and all.

Wahey!!!

languagenerd

I won €1million in a Blackberry Lottery once! Amazingly, I didn't even have a Blackberry! And even more amazingly, there were 30 other winners whose phone numbers were within one digit of mine! What are the chances, eh? :pac:

Ignore it, OP, you can't win something you never entered.

Cienciano

But it's a free Sony! Free! You'd have to be an idiot not to click the link

Smidge

aaronjumper wrote: »

I got one from "Apple" even though I've never purchased or owned one of their products.

All I had to do was log on with some details etc. etc.

+ 1

Ronin247

Lars1916 wrote: »

It's a Season Ticket for Anfield, isn't it?

Andy Carrol won one of them,king Kenny ended up getting scammed out of £35,000,000

Light Switch

phasers wrote: »

I've won so many ipads this way. I have so many now I use them as placemats.

Jesus, There's an app for everything!