TEXT SCAM, did you get any?

sometime i feel upset of this unending text scam. i usually ignore this messages but i am unlimited i will send malicious reply to them. my friend was a victim of them...asking loads and so many favors...they are evil...i don't knnow if they will stop scamming people but is is their business to lie and to victimized people. beware of this messages. don't believe immediately. instead ask assistance to authority before you ttransact business to them.

i havent recieve that kind of text scam coz..here in korea we can catch scammer on the cellphone..but most of the scam i recieved ,,is from thru my email add.

I always get something like this. I got the same text in both my phones. funny that when you try to call they number is always off. I did try to call so i can report to the authorities.. but the phone number used to send me the sms are always on off mode.

Hey, I also received this text message. Who would have known there are a lot of us here who received the same message... I knew this was a scam the second I'd laid my eyes on it. First, I haven't joined anything. And second, I don't have any luck with winning anything at all. Never had. And now I don't bother trying out with raffles and stuff. I wondered why of all things the scammers used, it's the name of a charity foundation? Didn't they have hearts?

If you have recieved a message like that again, look for the cel number and if you see its the 11 digit like what you put in this discussion its 100 percent scam, buit if you see 3 or 4 digits then its true, and go to the nearest service provider in your area and verify the authenticity of the message.

I receive these kind of text every day. They should really stop harrassing people like that!

if u were in india, there is a registry, do not call.... if u register there and spammers call/text u, and u complain, then they will be punished. i do not know about the case about phillipines...

I have this one & many others. They are all a lot of rubbish. How can these people think that we are fooled into believing we have won a lottery in a country that is a million miles away. I dont think most of these scammers are caught.

Hello Jemina, that is what it is called "check cashing scam". "They" say you won some money from a contest you never entered or they need you to "help" some person you don't know get the money. Basically it's always the same story every time: please let me send you the check, cash the check then send (most) of the money back to me. Since it's an international check it takes a few weeks to find out that it's fake, then YOU are stuck with the responsibility to pay for the bounced check in full

Hello Jemina. I have never received that kind of text message from Phil.Charity Foundation. But I did receive a text message two weeks ago from an unregistered number, telling me to call back or much better, send that number a P150 cellphone load. The message said that it's very, very urgent that I send that load because the sender has something very important to tell me. And that I have to send the load immediately because the sender has only P1 load left. Instead of getting angry, I laughed so hard. You know why? Because my cellphone has only P5 load left and that sender was urging me to send them an amount way larger than what my cellphone has!

When i was in the philippines, I got a lot of text scams. i just ignored every messages I received saying that I win thousands of peso. Now that i am in singapore, I stil can get scams. Someone will always call me without a number appearing on my phone telling me that I won a lucky draw.

I also received this kind of message before and I just deleted it immediately. I did not bother reply to it otherwise the persond who send this would assume that you are interested. It just annoys me that I am getting these trash on my inbox. It is sad that some Filipinos are being lured to this kind of scams because of being desperate to have money. During this time we should be careful providing information especially on text messages.

I guess all of us received something like that at one point in time. The reason for these is that SIM Cards are way too cheap now, so scammers easily can just change numbers. Bad side is that numbers do get recycled when it expired, so I feel pity to the new owner of the number if the number was used for a scam before.

MY dad got one. Telling him he won a brand new cellphone if he purchase 10 300 globe load. He did and told the scammer the card number and pin. It was only then he realize that it was a big hoax.

I received something like that as well, I don't bother making a reply to it since I already knew they were text scams.. One time, I relied to them and even told them where their address was or the meeting place is gonna be held. told them that I was a cop, but didn't received any reply at all. I guess they were just looking for gullible individuals who would bite their modus', they can fool others but not me! I would hold a feast, if ever one of them gets caught..

here is my take on text spams or any spams for that matter, don't just mind them. it is like watching tv having all those commercials. we simply don't mind them. this is a test of our selectivity on things that matters and what does not matter.

the gramma shoud warn folks i dont know any attys who speak ebonics

I received 3 times text last year telling me that I have won from a certain lottery. The same thing happened to some of my relatives. I was not able to help myself from refraining to reply. I got to reply that my brains is still connected to my head. I said 'I will call you atty. once I lost my brains and attained the IQ of a mongoloid.'

Yhea actually I just got this scam message earlier this morning that I won 2nd price winner from the central bank draw malate branch last 4/03/98 worth of Php. 780,000 for our info,please call........ I don't know what are there purpose of doing that they spent for nothing.

yeah,sometimes i think they must be punished,but while i think maybe they fight for their meal,just finish their tasks to send scam text.i got some text once or twice a week from the email and the phone.