The Pepsi ringtone promo is a sham
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Have you seen the Pepsi bottles with the orange caps lately? They say 1 in 3 people are supposed to get a ringtone. The invite you to visit PepsiSmash.com and enter the code on the bottom of the cap on the site in order to see what you’ve won. But wait, here’s where it gets shady. PepsiSmash.com takes you to a Yahoo website, where you need to sign in with your Yahoo ID or get one if you don’t have it. So right there, Yahoo makes sure they’ve got extra subscribers. Then you’re taken to another website, where you need to fill in your contact info and your demographic info.
So, for the price of a cheap ringtone (which you have a 1 in 3 chance of getting), Yahoo gets extra subscribers, and Pepsi gets the following: your name, email address, date of birth, gender, home phone number, mobile phone number, and full address. This is a pretty cheap way to get names and addresses! And it’s also a really, really shady practice. Under the guise of handing out a ringtone (maybe), you give out all your contact info, so they can bug you with junk mail, spam email and unnecessary text ads, sent right to your cellphone. How disgusting is that?
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