They both imply that there's some secret important message from a trusted source just awaiting my signing up for their service. Both of my friends who sent them, indicated that they were unaware until too late that Dotblu had retrieved their entire address book and sent this message.
Why did my friends sign up? They were trying to read a "private message" stored at Dotblu that one of their friends had sent. Sound like automated 'chain mail'?
It gets messier if you should click through... don't! Just delete.
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What happened to the secret message? Now there's some gift awaiting me. Here's where my friends got in trouble and should have hit manual instead of their address book (click to enlarge).
If you should happen to sign up (don't!) you will get this page.
The gift? A digital image of a cheap car that's not yet for sale to use on your profile at a site you never heard of before.
No mention of a private message from your friend. And if you click on the envelope icon...
That's right. What started as an email telling you to retrieve a private message from a trusted friend has you sign up at a betting site and there's no email to be found. Boo to Dotblu. Another Company Acting Badly.
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