Fake Viral Email Offer

Another fake viral email offer has spread with impressive speed;

The viral email offers users £100, or £200 in Marks and Spencer vouchers, and claims to be a joint campaign with Persimmon Homes.

Most web savvy Internet users will be wise to the ‘Microsoft will give you £XXXX if you forward this email to all your friends‘, and ‘My rich relative has died and I need someone to transfer the inheritance funds to‘; but many companies are legitimately offering discounts, vouchers and exclusive deals via viral email marketing.

HMV, Threshers, and LastMinute.com are companies that have successfully used this viral voucher strategy in the past, so it’s easy to see how people have been fooled by this latest hoax.

Read more about this fake viral email campaign at Sophos; see examples of Viral Emails at Viral 3dge or see what PushON can do if you want to develop a real successful viral email campaign.

Posted: June 8th, 2007 under Online Marketing, Viral Marketing.