NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
October 25, 2007
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

E-MAIL HOAX CIRCULATING

    If you’re one of those people getting e-mail that says internet users can get a free laptop computer by forwarding the e-mail message to eight friends, don’t hold your breath waiting for the laptop to arrive.

       The offer of free computers from Ericsson Company is a hoax – according to Snopes.com – the Urban Legends Reference Page.

       Snopes says the bogus e-mail is one of many “long-running internet hoaxes that has been circulating in one form or another since 1997”.

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