I've watched the show of Mike Enriquez "Imbestigador" on GMA7 earlier and feel dismay to what I've watched; An OFW from Kuwait have been a victim of a TEXT SCAM, the OFW told Imbestigador that he had received a text message coming from the Philippines saying that he won 3,000,000 pesos while he was working in Kuwait. He immediately decided to go to the Philippines to redeemed the 3,000,000 peso for what he believed he won leaving his work abroad.
But unfortunately, when he return here in the Philippines he got nothing from the money that he thought will change his life and the life of his family. But the truth is he became one the victims of TEXT SCAM.
The case of the OFW including the number of the SIM card that is used for sending the scam message to the OFW has been submitted to NTC, and NTC said that even though they've got the number it is still hard to find the suspect because it is a prepaid SIM.
The NTC fails to locate the person who send that scam message, the only thing that NTC can do is to block the SIM card used by the suspect and send bulk text message to that SIM card to make it unusable like having booted in Yahoo! Messenger.
I hope this will be the last victim of TEXT SCAMs. Just a friendly reminder, be wise, never believe immediately on text messages that states you won a price which you can't remember you've join and ask for you to send something like prepaid cards.
3 comments:
I had no idea the Nigerian 419 scams were sent via text too! No inbox is safe now.
I myself have received such text messages..sometimes they also ask you to send e-load of Php500.00..so it's a good thing that you are able to participate in information dessimenation of this scams..
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