Dear Aunt TUAW: Did Steve Jobs gift me an iPad?

Dear Auntie T,

Hi! First time writer. I was just curious if anyone else was receiving an email like I received. My first instinct is to say it is fake and/or an April Fools' joke. However I want to be sure. The entire message is below.

From: Steve Jobs Subject: Congratulations! You've won an iPad! Date: April 1, 2010 4:05:24 PM CDT To: [Redacted] Reply-To: steve.jobs@apple.com Dear Kris [Redacted], You are the winner of a brand new Apple iPad! Please show up at your nearest Apple Store on saturday April 3rd from 9am to 3pm. Bring an official ID an give Authorization Code # [Removed just in case it is real.] I personally hope you enjoy our new product! Steve Jobs Apple Corp.
Please give me your take on this. Thanks! Love the site.

Love and Kissies,

Kris McG.

Darling Kris,

Want the good news or the bad news first? The good news is that exercise can really help with depression. So you're going to want to take a nice long walk when I tell you the bad news: yes, undoubtedly it is an April Fools hoax. That e-mail is about 50 words too long for a legit e-mail from Uncle Steve. Had he written it, it would go something like this.

Free iPad. Come get it. Steve Jobs Sent from my iPad
It also wouldn't have been sent from "Apple Corp". It's "Apple, Inc." these days. That's not Uncle Steve's e-mail addy, either. Nor would he have misspelled the word "and" or neglected to capitalize "Saturday." Some things are just too good to be true. This is one of them. However, a good habit of exercise is a gift that keeps giving for your entire life.

And don't forget to eat plenty of roughage!

Love,

Auntie T.

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Michael Murdock

actually it's sjobs@apple.com and has been for years. Next, you'd most probably get a phone call from one of his aides letting you know this was coming along with the tracking number for it. And last but not least you'd never receive it on APR1 if it was real :) Hope you did not click any links in the email. If you did, even on a Mac, good thing to do would be to scan for malware. Yes Macs do get them too.

Love,

Mike

April 02 2010 at 1:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Queen Banzaila

Huh. Imagine if the reader fell for the email and went to the Apple store...

April 02 2010 at 7:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

liamrickerby

Did you not check where the email came from? If it is from a genuine apple.com or one of their official domains, contact them and tell them it's not funny and now I want a real iPad for the inconvenience!

If it came from something like @youshouldhaveknowbetter.com then shame on you.

April 02 2010 at 4:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

now4real954

dumb

April 02 2010 at 12:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David

Did anyone else get that Apple Corp. thing? As in "apple core" Or am I reaching here?

April 01 2010 at 11:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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nosebag

Apple Corps is The Beatles company. And, yes it is supposed to sound like Apple Core.

Apple the computer company is Apple Inc.

April 02 2010 at 9:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tys

Apple once sent me a $100 gift card for no reason that I could figure out.
I got an email that it had shipped and a few days later it came in the mail.
I used it at the local Apple store with no problems.

April 01 2010 at 11:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jtb

Oh no. :(

You might also want to read this from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2080

April 01 2010 at 11:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

zendiz

How come noone mentions April Fool's Day? There is no doubt. It's a prank.

April 01 2010 at 10:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Haymoose

I got one of these today and the headers read the email is from Steve Balmer. That guy is so trippy!

April 01 2010 at 10:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MIchael

rofl, if I won a free ipad and this wan't a scam i'd be soooo happy..... too bad for this email being around.