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By David Emery
As of yesterday, Nike Inc. reports receiving up to 100 boxes of tattered, smelly old sneakers daily at its Wilsonville, Oregon storage from sufferers of an email hoax who entirely expect to be sent a brand new pair of Nikes in exchange.
What they'll receive instead is a manner letter stating that the message which reminded them to put their shoes in the mail is phony and not condoned by the enterprise; that though Nike does have a shoe recycling agenda, that does not contain one offer of new sneakers in commute as old ones; and that entire shoes the enterprise receives in articulation with the hoax message will be held as 21 days and then recycled unless senders advertise the company that they want the shoes back.
The misinformation, circulating since mid-February, has grown from a inferior headache to a major an for Nike in recent weeks. Because the address given out in the message is slightly inexact, the company has been competent to pathway how many shoes it receives daily in rejoinder to the hoax. That measure has extra than doubled over the quondam week.
If you receive the message (reproduced beneath), disregard it. Please do not amenable it to anyone another. If at all likely, notify the sender that the information they're distributing is disloyal.
Should you hope to make a acquisition to the real shoe recycling program, please do not send shoes to the address given in the message. Instead,
tods shoes women, shriek Nike's toll-free digit for proper instructions: 1-800-352-6453 (adoption #3).
Here's what the hoax message looks like:
Subject: FW: FW: Free Shoes
Just a fast memorandum to tell you about a program that Nike began to help make fields and playgrounds for the underprivileged from old tennis shoes.
All YOU have to do is sbring ... to an end your age tennis shoes (NO MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE) with a piece of paper that has your name and address ashore it, and Nike will send you a mark current pair back FREE OF COST!!! The tennis shoes you bring DO NOT must be Nike. Just at the peak of they are tennis shoes. It actually is a worthwhile project, and it's helping a lot of juvenile kids.
Here is the address:
Nike Recycling Center
c/o Reuse-A-Shoe
26755 SW 95th Street
Wilsonville, OR 97070
Please sbring an end to ... your shoes. Otherwise you are just going to throw them away and they go apt garbage. This course something can obtain some use out of them.
Nike really does send you a BRAND NEW pair of shoes even now you sbring an end to ... K-Swiss. Pass this to anyone and everybody you know so everybody can help out.
This is the second Internet prank to victimize the public in Nike's name by far this year. Another necklace letter in circulation since February alleges that Nike is helping Microsoft test its new "email tracing software" (which doesn't exist) and handing out award certificates to randomly selected participants (see the Hoax Advisory issued February 25).
In reception unlock published today, Nike condemned both ongoing hoaxes. "Nike not sends unsolicited e-mails over the Internet," said Scott Reames,dunk shoes, Nike corp. communications manager. "We do not condone these e-mail hoaxes,
tod's sale, and are dismayed that well-intentioned human are creature duped into wasting their period."
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