Outback Steakhouse

The Outback Steakhouse Hoax

The Outback Steakhouse is a hoax email which was spread by gullible people who sent it on to their friends.

Symantec.com, home of the Norton Internet Security and anti-virus product, reports on the 'Outback Steakhouse' email.
It says:

This is a hoax. It (the email) is similar to the following:

Subject: Outback Steakhouse

Message:

OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE.
We have rented an email tracker for the next 3 months!
We at RH Power Inc. want to see how many people our email
can reach in this time!

If you forward this mail, you will be PAID MONEY! ! ! !
This email must be sent immediately upon receiving this for it to be counted.

For every person you send this to you will receive $413!
For every person they send this to you will receive $139!

I too (Ryan LaGrange, Head Marketing Manager), thought this was a hoax until I did the same this and the next month got a check for $4612 in the mail!

BONUS

IF YOU SEND THIS TO AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE RIGHT AWAY, A $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE WILL POP UP ON YOUR SCREEN PRINT OUT.

Gotta try it just for the $25 certificate!
Jo & Bob Wagner

Outback Steakhouse

(End of quote from Symantec.)

Needless to say, there was no free money being given away! This hoax email is similar to the so-called 'Irish Virus' which sent a joke email which said, in effect: "I'm no good at programming, so would you please forward this email to all your friends - and after that, would you kindly reformat your own hard drive for me!"

There actually is an international restaurant chain named Outback Steakhouse.

They have steak restaurants round the world, including two within suburbs of Sydney Australia. But not one of them is in the real Australian Outback.