I’m most reminded of TechTV’s Kevin Rose pushing this and remember seeing a huge number of comments from people on his blog posting asking others to sign up so they can get the five people beneath them (pyramid). There was some skepticism back then. This offer seemed altogether too good to be true, although a few had blogged that they actually received their iPods and pushed this great “deal” after seeing a Wired article.

Well, apparently it was in fact too good to be true — for some folks, anyway:

In the case of the free iPod, you have to get five of your friends to fill out several applications for various offers or services. Even if you manage to get five people willing to give up their personal information to a company, which can freely sell it, according to the privacy agreement, you come to a step where you have to use or take advantage of two offers.

I’m very suspicious of offers online like this. The guy behind this apparently has an unfavorable rating with the Better Business Bureau for — you guessed it — “failure to substantiate or modify its Get a free laptop computer advertising claims.”

These days I’m seeing similar offers for free Mini-Mac’s online and I have no idea if these are legitimate or scams. Maybe I’m too cynical but I’d rather pay the $500 then end up promoting something that could cause a lot of people to be scammed. Just because it’s on TechTV, Wired writes about it and Kevin Rose says it is the bomb, doesn’t mean it is truly legitimate. People get fooled all the time.

Fellow netizens: be careful out there.

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