Ericsson victime d'une chaîne email

Voici encore un exemple de chaîne email qui peut frapper toute entreprise: aujourd'hui la victime est un fabricant de téléphone mobiles.L'email original:

Dear customer,

Our main competitor, Nokia, is giving free mobile phones away on the Internet. Here at Ericsson we want to counter their offer. So we are giving our newest WAP-phones away as well. They are specially developed for Internet happy customers who value cutting edge technology. By giving free phones away, we get valuable customer feedback
and a great Word-of-Mouth effect. All you have to do, is to forward this message to 8 friends. After two weeks delivery time, you will receive a Ericsson T18. If you forward it to 20 friends, you will receive the brand new Ericsson R320 WAP-phone. Just remember to send a copy to [email protected] that is the only way we can see, that you forwarded the message.


Best of luck
Anna Swelund
Executive Promotion Manager for Ericsson Marketing

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. Reproduction, transfer, distribution or storage of part or all of the contents in any form without the prior written permission of Ericsson is prohibited except in accordance with the following terms. Ericsson consents to you browsing Ericsson World Wide Web pages on you computer or WAP-phone and printing copies of these pages for private use only.


Evidement Ericsson ne donne aucun téléphone et il n'existe aucune Anna Swelund chez Ericsson.


Le démenti d'Ericsson:guerre d














Chain letter is a fraud


[First published 10 April 2000]
A chain letter is currently in circulation via e-mail, suggesting that Ericsson is giving away WAP phones. The e-mail is a fraud and Ericsson is not giving away phones for free.
The following is an extract from the letter: “If you forward it [the letter] to 20 friends, you will receive the brand new Ericsson R320 WAP-phone.” The letter is signed off Anna Swelund, Executive Promotion Manager for Ericsson Marketing. This person does not exist at Ericsson. The legal and IT departments at Ericsson will trace the person who initiated the illegal chain letter. Ericsson is sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused and kindly ask people not to forward the chain mail further.








Published 10 April 2000