Customers call Metfone on promise

Winning text messages in hand, about 25 angry Metfone customers yesterday gathered at the telecom’s head office on Mao Tse Tung Boulevard to demand the new iPhones they were promised. Each of the customers had paid US$0.30 to enter a Metfone-sponsored contest and received a text message from the Vietnamese-owned company confirming they had won a new Apple iPhone 4S, which retails at between $649 and $849 in the US. However, Metfone officials at the office claimed that the promissory messages were a technical malfunction, and tried to compensate the contest “winners” with an offer of $5 per person…

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