Vodafone free credit text message hoax doing the rounds

Caco · 22-01-2007 12:59pm #1

I recieved a text message from two people I know which seems to be a hoax doing the rounds:

Vodafone are now
keeping vodafone to
vodafone texts free for
ever .So tell all of your
friends. Send this to 10
of your 087 friends
and recieve 5euro top
up for spreading the
word.This credit will
be sent to you within 2
minutes of your last sent
message.Thanks
from vodafone.

Looking at the grammatical errors and the way the "v" in Vodafone is never capitalised, I thought this may be a hoax (Also that not many phone companies would be this generous!)
So I rang Vodafone Customer Services and asked if it was a real offer, the agent told me that it wasn't.

Has anyone else recieved this message? If you do, obviously don't send it on unless you like to waste your credit!

dal · 22-01-2007 2:27pm

Also, how would vodafone know that you had sent that specific text to 10 people? Has to be a hoax.

wba88 · 22-01-2007 2:32pm

It is. theres a thread about it somewhere here

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 22-01-2007 2:33pm

There is a similar O2 text doing the rounds.

ambrose :cool:

Urban Weigl · 22-01-2007 2:53pm

It always amuses me that people fall for this kind of thing, when it's so obviously not real.

Linoge · 22-01-2007 3:06pm

Since when is this new? Spamming like that has been going on by text for years and by email even longer. I actually think they're good because anyone who is stupid enough to believe a text like that deserves to lose E1.30 worth of credit. (But then again, I am a prick:-))

Urban Weigl · 22-01-2007 4:28pm

Mimikyu · 22-01-2007 6:48pm

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Random · 22-01-2007 7:44pm

Wish a MOD would do a text ... it'll be Meteor next and then someone will suggest 3 are giving out free stuff

drdre · 24-01-2007 1:42am

kingambrose wrote:

There is a similar O2 text doing the rounds.

ambrose :cool:

yes my dad ot it and he is a bill pay and it said send x amount of texts and get 5 euro credited to your account.
How does this scam work?

Random · 24-01-2007 1:55am

drdre wrote:

yes my dad ot it and he is a bill pay and it said send x amount of texts and get 5 euro credited to your account.
How does this scam work?

You cannot be serious?

dal · 24-01-2007 10:37am

drdre wrote:

yes my dad ot it and he is a bill pay and it said send x amount of texts and get 5 euro credited to your account.
How does this scam work?

I am guessing it was just started by someone who thought it would be funny if people actually believed it and wasted their credit.

I don't think anyone profits out of it (apart from vodafone of course).

Vodafone free credit text message hoax doing the rounds

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