http://www.afreelaptop.com ? Supposedly, you sign up for $28 and get put on a list… Once 75 more people join, you get a totally free laptop. Sounds like a bunch of crap, but someone on a forum is claiming to have gotten one. Any ideas?
[Mr. Rogers voice]This is a SCAM, boys and girls. Can you say SCAM? Good.[/Mr. Rogers voice]
Seriously though, I wouldn’t spend $28 to sign up for anything that short on details and long on promises. You notice that they don’t tell you what brand the laptop is, or where the laptops are coming from, or any other useful information? And that it seems to work almost like a chain letter?
If it walks, talks, and sounds like a scam, it probably is.
-brianjedi
Another version of the old pyramid scheme. BOOOOGUS!!
Looks like a classic pyramid scheme to me, with the payoff being a laptop instead of cold, hard cash.
$28 X 75 = $2100. In theory it would work, but someone somewhere will get screwed (probably the 74 people at the bottom of the list when they shut down.) They seem to work with Gateway. I would call or E-mail them and explain this to them and find out where their take on it is.
I guess if it WAS legit, and you got near the bottom of the list it would take quite a while to get your “laptop”. What a scam.
Google: free laptop scam.
Happy reading.
Even if it wasn’t immediately obvious as a Ponzi scheme, isn’t it obvious that if something costs 28 bucks it ain’t free? The URL itself is a lie, and hence not to be trusted. But even if the URL was 28bucklaptops.com, it’s Ponzi and should be avoided.
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- Yea, but what if you gave them the Nigerian bank account number you got from the other emails? Will Doctor Tassir Nebutos get the free laptop?
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- Yea, but what if you gave them the Nigerian bank account number you got from the other emails? Will Doctor Tassir Nebutos get the free laptop?
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