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This hoax message contains a picture with the following text.

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Dear All,

Ericsson is distributing free laptops for their brand promotion. They hope to increase their popularity and sale by this campaign. All you need to do is send an email about this promotion to 8 people and you will receive an Ericsson T16 Laptop.

However, if you send an email to 20 or more people, you will receive an Ericsson R320 Laptop.

Make sure you send a copy to: anna.swelung@ericsson.com

With Regards,
N. Kousik (IT - Manager - RCG)

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http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/ericsson.asp





[SPAM] There is data for over 34 different medical specialties


The package below is valued at over $2000 when purchased individually

Board Certified MDs in the United States

788,676 in total * 17,568 emails

Coverage in many different areas of medicine such as Endocrinology, Pathology, Urology, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry, Cardiology and much more

16 different sortable fields


Pharmaceutical Companies in the US
Names and email addresses of 47,000 employees in high-ranking positions

Directory of US Hospitals
Full data for all the major positions in more than 7k facilities

Complete and Accurate Listing for Dental Service Providers
Virtually every dentist in the US with full contact details

Database of US Chiropractors
Over than 100k chiropractors practicing in the USA


This week only you pay only:
$392 for all above data

email to:      A....@...........com



exp. mar May 16


Send email to e...@........com to ensure no further communication





[SPAM - But Useful] DAILY HEALTH


Though I got this as a SPAM e-mail, the info at the links are quite useful.



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SITTING JOBS LEADS TO BACK PAIN.
 
 
 
WHAT CAUSES KNEE PAIN.
 
 
 
WORK TENSIONS LEADS TO MIGRANE.
 
 
LIFESTYLE LEADS TO BREAST CANCER.
 

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[Hoax] Please circulate ASAP!!!!

Be Extremely Careful
especially if using internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.


This information arrived this morning direct from both Microsoft and Norton.

Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet.

You may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation

'Life is beautiful.'


If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES , and
delete it immediately ...

If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.

AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the antivirus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner.'



PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY

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[ HOAX ] Contact Mr John Carrick (+44 703 5986 245)

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From: Mrs Cindy Howard

Subject: Contact Mr John Carrick (+44 703 xxxxxxxxx)


Your email ID has been awarded 1,000,000,00 GBP in our lottery promo,Get back via:(xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.com)

Name:Country:Sex:Age:Address:

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Subject: Please read it and forward...

Dear friend...here is a request from a guy named Asgar...help him...I'm sure u

can...You delete this if u want but at first listen to him;" Hello my name is

Asgar and I have a new born baby named Riju. She means the world to me, and just

recently the doctors discovered that she had Brain Cancer. Unfortunetly my wife

and I don't have enough money to even pay the bills. My wife and I worked out a

deal with YAHOO, AOL and ORKUT and they have agreed to give us 5 cents for each

person that receives this MSG." So please forward this to evryone on ur

list......It costs u nothing....

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This message seems to be a CHAIN LETTER/HOAX message spreading quickly in Orkut and through e-mails. Many other variants are also there like the following one:

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""Plz don't delete dis...forward it.....

Hello,

my name is Krista and I have a new born baby named Natalie. She means the world to me, and just recently the doctors discovered that she had Brain Cancer.
Unfortunately my husband and I don't have enough money to even pay the bills. My Husband and I worked out a deal with YAHOO and AOL and ORKUT
and they have agreed to give us 5 cents for each person that receives this IM, so please forward this to everyone you know and help out. PLz""

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It is obvious that NO ONE at YAHOO, AOL and ORKUT will agree for a deal like that....if at all...they would have donated some money in charity out of their profits!! They won't allow someone to spread a CHAIN LETTER like these.

To learn more about these kind of messages please visit: How to identify a Hoax? URL: http://live-blog.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-identify-hoax.html Please check out this entry at Yahoo! Answers also: Does forwarding this really works? URL: http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070127101052AAE8VmD



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