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F-Secure Hoax Information Pages: Applebees Gift Certificate Gift Certificate hoax

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Name : Applebees Gift Certificate Gift Certificate hoax
Type:Hoax
Category:Hoax
Platform:Win32
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Summary
Applebees Gift Certificate Gift Certificate is a hoax. Please do not forward this message.
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Detailed Description
This hoax is one of the many variants of the gift certificate hoax. Typical for these hoaxes is that the hoax claims that some company is using email tracking system and is asking recipient to forward the message to several persons for reward.

Please ignore this hoax and do not pass it on.

The original hoax message:

My name is Bill Palmer, founder of Applebees. In an attempt to get our
name out to more people in the rural communities where we are not
currently located, we are offering a $50 gift certificate to anyone
who forwards this email to 9 of their friends. Just send this email
to them and you will receive an email back with a confirmation number
to claim your gift certificate.

Sincerely
Bill Palmer
Founder of Applebees Visit us at: www.applebees.com

Hey guys,
DONT DELETE THIS EMAIL
It really works, I tried it and got my Gift certificate confirmation
number in 3 minutes.
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Last Modified: January 01, 2006