SMS Hoax

Hi, pillow Welcome to Mylot. I have received a lot of text messages like that. Usually, they claim to be lawyers. What's funny is that there are a lot of grammatical errors or wrongly spelled words in their text message. I get exasperated and want to text back pointing out the funny things in their message but, on second thought, I do not want to waste my money nor my time. Have a nice day!

Oh that is a very old modus done via text. There are many that do that in many varied ways like winning a car but it is mostly in cash prize they try to lure many texters. I just hope that many won't catch the bait as sometimes the text are just very convincing to those that are in need of money. I almost receive one almopst every other week or so and I just have to ignore them as its no use to catch them since it's really hard to catch them unless they would personally meet you which I think won't come to that situation.

Yeah people have been doing this for soooo, so long. I don't understand how people could still actually fall for it, but someone must be because they haven't stopped trying.

Wow there are using Sms now ,I guess these guys wont sto at anything to scam people now .I am glad that you realise its fake and I hope you will continue to be on the look out for people lik ethese and alert us about them .The aim is to finally remove these guys from the planet by being vigillant.

What you did is right and i think, if you haven't remember joining any raffle then don;t believe it. That is one modus operandi in our country, if they will not swindle you, they will rob you when they met you and sometimes if you ar really unlucky, kill you or rape you. It often times happen in our country. I wish this things stops in the near future.

yes pillow you are right, coz me too had received a lot of email messages from somebody that i won blah blah blah... even in text messages we received ? like one time my hubby received that kind of message that he won, he did call that number and nobody answer... so he knew it is a kind of crap..our government should do something about it, especially NTC, since they are responsible for these mobile phones messages.

I just received one a few days ago... and the texter texted me like she was a relative working abroad... and she was asking for a 500 php load... i did not bother to text back... i get a lot of texts like that... but i just delete them immediately...

Same here. Fake SMS have been a long time trickery since cell phone started to used in Indonesia. And if we watch carefully, their SMS actually pretty stupid. Some of their SMS said like this "Congratulation, you have won Rp. 15.000.000,- from PT INDOSAT Tbk. Please contact bla bla bla" and if we check through the sender number, they send it via Telkomsel number (another provider), then who would believe that?? Ironically, many Indonesian people still fall that. Nowadays, they are more and more extreme. Not only sending message, they actually call us and lead us into trickery thing via phone. Always check the official source (calling center line, web site, etc) upon something like this. Be careful. Regards.

ya i too have received such kind of messages but i usually ignore them.all are fake messages,they just try out some mobile number and then send the message.Generally such kind of messages were sent only to e-mail that you have won a lotto and all that but now they are even sent to mobile phones by sms

There's no way you tract these type of people as long as you can purchase a sim card just about everywhere. The only solution to this problem is for NTC to require all those who purchase a sim card to register to them. That way NTC will be able to track who purchased that sim and corresponding charges will be filed if found that his or her sim was used to send messages for the purpose of hoaxing someone. This problem is actually not limited in one country, i recall a fellow member here who resides in India posted about a similar problem. I think almost everyone who has a cellphones has received these type of messages. Lucky are those who are intelligent enough to know that when you won, the company contacts you by calling you and sending a registered mail instead of the other way around. But still there are people who fall victim to these type of modus operandi and it's a pity that the government can't don anything about it. Cheers!

WOW! you won 950T?! well i recieved also a sms informing that i won 450T... which is half of your winning...lol... frankly this guys wont stop since some of our country men are still believing this hoax... some says they are atty ^&*&*&%$.... and advising you to call them.... hmmm please people stop believing on this scam....