Get a Free Smiley T-Shirt

The Firefly Bridge™ "Giveaway"

This group claims that members can get a free smiley T-Shirt from The Firefly Bridge™. They claim to be giving away "tons" of smiley t-shirts. If you visit the provided url, a sleek official looking form appears. But are they really giving away free t-shrits? We have our doubts.

IQ Required

After clicking "Claim Shirt", The Firefly Bridge™ redirects its customers to a sketchy verification page, which asks customers to fill out a "brief survey" to "verify your submission". Yes, your IQ score is needed for verification purposes. How else could a company ensure YOUR authenticity?

Hidden Text

We considered that The Firefly Bridge™ may be using this survey to pay for shipping. If you highlight the bottom of the form, it is revealed that t-shirts will only be sent out after 300,000 submissions have been received. Yes, THREE-HUNDRED THOUSAND T-SHIRTS. The shipping cost would be outrageous. However, we remained skeptical.

Further Inconsistencies

The Firefly Bridge™ homepage claims that the site is no longer a store, however we have doubts as to whether it was ever a store.

BUT...

Domain Tools indicates that the domain was only licensed on 1/06/2010. That's five days before the writing of this article. The company ran its course in five days? Seems suspicious.

The Source of the Problem

Here's the English version of what the source displayed reveals: No matter what size you select, the only information the form submits is "sz". The form doesn't actually input your specified size! Beyond that, there's even a mistake in the html. Apparently, there's supposed to be an XS size as well, but the coders forgot a bracket.

Our Conclusion

The only thing being given away is your e-mail and address to SPAM marketers.

Remember: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.


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