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Someone said I am offered a free $500 gift card to target! But they want me to complete some offers. Why?

SBad asked:


I really want a 500 dollar gift card to best buy at least!

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13 Responses to “Someone said I am offered a free $500 gift card to target! But they want me to complete some offers. Why?”

  1. msacup Says:
    January 11th, 2010 at 5:07 pm

    promotions to attract more buyers…

  2. Kalahari_Surfer Says:
    January 14th, 2010 at 10:40 pm

    so they are hoping you’;ll spend more than $500 in the offers. Rememeber you don’;t get anything for free

  3. Michael Myklin Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

    If you didn’t initiate the email I would be very cautious about replying. Many of these are pure phishing attacks and others just a way to sell you something.

  4. Campbell Gramma Says:
    January 19th, 2010 at 11:18 pm

    probably a scam to get personal information……

    if it sounds too good to be true…it probably is

  5. Lindsey Says:
    January 22nd, 2010 at 8:27 pm

    so they can send you a bunch of junk mail and put you on spamming lists and stuff like that

  6. johnluke1169 Says:
    January 23rd, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    All of those e-mails are scams to get you to spend your money on things and then you don’t get the prize.

  7. conradj213 Says:
    January 24th, 2010 at 7:06 am

    It’s a pyramid scam. You refer people, they refer people and so on (not to mention those inane offers you have to complete)… it’s not worth it, you may never see it even if you do complete it.

  8. CathyM Says:
    January 26th, 2010 at 8:28 am

    You have to complete the offers as stated in fine print. That is no good because until you complete the offers and wait a long time and complete some more you will find out there is even more. Good Luck

  9. Quilt4Rose Says:
    January 27th, 2010 at 8:24 am

    I get those, too. They’re scams.

    If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

  10. tonalc1 Says:
    January 30th, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    “Completing offers” means you have to buy things from other companies in order to qualify. You’ll wind up spending money on things you didn’t necessarily want.

    Ignore these kinds of offers.

  11. Wade Q Says:
    February 2nd, 2010 at 6:02 am

    hahaa…..its called phishing……

    Basically they offer you somethign – somethign you’re likely to be interested in…keep in mind that you will spend ALL day for usually 3 days before you complete all the requirements to get it….and very rarely do you actually click all the right buttons before something disqualifies you per the terms. Through all of this you divulge information and email addresses about your friends, etc. oops….now we all get tons of spam…bummer

    General rule – dont read em – just delete em….there is no such thing as “FREE” on teh net.

  12. robbet03 Says:
    February 3rd, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    Its probably a scam

  13. benross_2001 Says:
    February 3rd, 2010 at 8:29 pm

    don’t believe that. You will be spending more than 500$ to get the gift card

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