Sony Ericsson T18 Laptop for Free

           The unsolicited message, usually arriving as  part of a chain letter from unaware friends or colleagues, holds a graphic piece displaying the company logo, two laptop images and a text that invites the recipients to participate in a "brand promotion" campaign, as you can see below:

    the revival of an (at least) two years old hoax that promised computer laptops in exchange of disseminating a similar message, it relied on a behavioral vector greed part of social engineering strategy.

       Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunication company, which does not produce laptops (but phones and cells). Its partner from the joint venture established in 2001, Sony, is the company that manufactures laptops.

     Second, T18 and R320 are not laptop models, but discontinued cell phones - the ancestors of our contemporary ultra portable mobiles, introduced about a decade ago.

   

 Last, Sony Ericsson came up earlier this week with a press release, which confirms that the alleged competition is a fraud and the contact name, e-mail address and the signer of the announcement are just pure inventions.