Chris Linfoot | Sainsbury's is not giving away free vouchers for email!

Wednesday, 19. October 2005

Sainsbury's is not giving away free vouchers for email!

Trend ScanMail for Domino has a built in hoax and chain mail filter which has worked very efficiently here for a long time. Until today.

This latest hoax uses a form of words which, while similar to the patterns defined in the SMD filters, is not quite close enough to trigger the rule and so the hoaxes are delivered and what happens next? Our users start sending them to each other as well as to hapless victims outside.

Words fail me.

Sample hoax

Dear Sainsbury's Shoppers! !

As part of our marketing exercise we will be giving away Ł60 gift vouchers. Yes you read it right, Free gift vouchers, no catch.

All you have to do is forward this email on to 10 friends & a copy to [Email Address Removed] simple as that. Once everyone in your list has sent 10 emails you will be emailed your Ł60 voucher which you can exchange in all Sainsbury's stores.

Thanks for taking part in our exciting new marketing method

(Trend SMD rule has now been tweaked to trigger on this hoax).

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