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Jun 09 2nd |
McDonald’s Free Gift Certificate HOAX: An UpdatePosted by Ada on Category: Blogging | 58 Comments |
Just this evening, I received an email from Kai Palileo (Innovations Manager under the Starcom Medievest Group and currently the media agency of McDonald’s in the Philippines). The message is this:
Dear Adaphobic,
I would like to just send you a message regarding the post you made about the Free McDonald’s GCs, first and foremost, I would like to introduce myself, I am Kai Palileo and an Innovations Manager under the Starcom Medievest Group and currently the media agency of McDonald’s in the Philippines. This viral campaign is actually one of the digital initiatives I handled for McDo a couple of months back. It is not a hoax. I’d like to assure you that this was an authentic campaign in which my team was tasked to answer thousands of emails (there were only 2 of us answering each email) and in just a few minutes of launch, we received so many emails that we literally ran out of free GCs to give away in less than an hour. We already closed the campaign and the emails still keep coming in that’s why if you try emailing, it will already bounce back. Would also like to apologize if the call center was not aware of the promo as the call center is only equipped to take delivery calls and are only aware of store or delivery related promos. This feedback has definitely taught us to ensure that all channels are well informed of each and every promo that we do and it is very well noted and greatly appreciated.
If you would like to further authenticate my response to you, you may call our head office at 884 8053 or call McDonald’s head office instead of the call center.
Thank you so much
Sincerely,
Kai Palileo
I apologize for blatantly blogging that their promo is a hoax. It’s just I think that holding such kind of promo through email can be easily considered as scam/spam or phishing strategy (collecting emails) considered to be an untrusted thing without confirming if it is safe or not.
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June 9th, 2009 at 1:49 am
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Ada Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Whow you have a great blog! Thank for including me at your Pro list woot, though I am not a Pro :p
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June 8th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
nakatanggap na rin ako ng email na free sony laptop daw. sino kaya gumagawa nito. tsk tsk
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Ada Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Scammer ang gumawa nyan, nangangati ang pwet kasi maghapon nakaupo, kaya ayan woot
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June 8th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
andami ko natatanggap na mga ganyang email and nakakainis lang. hahaha D: akala ko importanteng email e
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Ada Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Uu delete mu agad
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June 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Damn I wasted time on this too… next time I’ll check to make sure. Sentro 1771 had a free dish promo via email with similar mechanics to this but it was genuine.
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Ada Reply:
June 9th, 2009 at 1:58 am
For phishing ang main goal nila. hehe walang magawa sa life.
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June 7th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
nakaencounter din nyan ako last week kala ko nga totoo..natuwa pa naman ako..well siguro may purpost ang paggawa ng ads na yan…
btw..ms. ada since pareho tyo ng theme..pano mo nalagay ung gray na icons sa recent coments, post and archive mo..hehehe di ko kayang ipalabas eh
waiting for your help..thanks in advance..email mo na lang ako sa email add ko.
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Ada Reply:
June 7th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Automatic siyang lumalabas. Try niyo po magads sa widgets niyo. Automatic po siya
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Chris Astadan Reply:
June 7th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
thanks ada..
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June 6th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
I love the big size! Wow!!!!
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June 5th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Woah hinde ko to nareceive ahaha nakakapangwindang yung email add nian ah medyo parehas dun sa mcdo.ph haha. Thanks sa paginform
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June 5th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
waw! i love the sizes! haha
yumyum! just visiting!
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June 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
I was really wondered about this, I think I got an email forward from someone who got that email forwarded from Kuya Jez and it made me WOW for a moment before I realized this might just be another hoax that lots -especially newbies on the net- are falling into. Hehe. Sabi na nga bang di totoo yun :p
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Ada Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Uu, mga newbie sa internet at email madalas mabiktima nun.
Yung email tuloy naten nakukuha for future spam.
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June 5th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Hay, may mga ibang tao talaga na walang magawa. *lol*
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Ada Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Yup :p haha! Nilalamig siguro kaya kung anu anu na lang ginagawa
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