I am sure you have read about the website freeipods.com. If not, basically the site is about :

  • Sign up by creating a free account.
  • Buying one of the offers from a list of sponsored offers (from 5 DVDs for $ 0.49/each to online fax account to teeth whitening stuff).
  • Convince 10 friends of yours to do the same

And a couple of months later you get your iPod. When I heard (a year ago mabye) about this initially, I thought, what a lame idea for scam, surely no one buys this story. Anyways, the other week I got an email from a friend in the states asking me to sign up for a FREE Mac Mini. Again, I thought my friend either has a virus of some kind that sent out this email or he has been suckered into it. Another few days later, I got the same email from another friend in the states (these two friends know each other as well, so I am guessing the first email went to him as well). So I did what I did the first time, pressed the delete button faster than I could think and went on with my life.

Today, I got an email from both of them, telling me that that got their free Mac mini!!! I guess if you think about it, this would be possible since each of these offers makes you plus 10 of your friends buy stuff for around $10-20 which comes down to $110-$220 before they have to cough up a mac. And add to that the price they charge their sponsors to get a spot. Still, a Mac mini is about $485 so it doesn’t add up quite, but what to do when people do get their Mac minis?