Mobile Phone Scam: I Won 1 Million Worth!!!
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (140102)
Philippines
March 19, 2016 2:06am CST
It is so alarming that text messages are becoming a scam. I had received a message that I won a million peso. The instuctions were given in the message. I need to send some amount of money to a bank account. Once I read this, I knew it is another scam. I had also seen some local news that these scammers had victimized so many innocent souls. They were not able to determine the bad intentions. In some point, this kind of scam is also widely spread in emails. I had also received some of these scam messages especially when started participating in myLot. I had once fall into misery when someone tried to hack my paypal. Some people are trying to deceive people and cannot even have the guilt of doing it. Have you ever experienced this?
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11 responses
@LdeL0318 (6400)
• Philippines
20 Mar 16
@Shavkat but there are still some who are being scammed. Usually they ask you for prepaid load cards. Most of their victims are elderlies with relatives abroad. They would tell you that the number being used is their new roaming number. They will talk to you as if they were your real relatives and later on ask you to send load.
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@Shavkat (140102)
• Philippines
19 Mar 16
@LdeL03018 Exactly! It is obviously not a perfect scheme to fool other people.
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@rakski (125762)
• Philippines
26 Mar 16
I experienced this also. But it was not 1 Million I won but a brand new Starex van. The catch is, the van is in Cebu and I have to give 50,000 pesos. lol. it is a hoax!!! hahaha. They want me to remit the money but I told them I will pay in the banck, after that they're gone. lol
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
20 Mar 16
I had also received scam texts and emails.
I just ignore those scam texts but with the email, I had exchanged emails with the sender even if I knew it was only a scam. But I think I was not good in pretending that I am interested with the money. LOL
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@Karjivkaran (169)
• Mumbai, India
19 Mar 16
I get such mails rather than SMS very often.
Some are job offering who demand money in exchange.
They think I am fool.
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@Shavkat (140102)
• Philippines
19 Mar 16
@Karjivkaran That's a new scheme of fooling the people.
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@Karjivkaran (169)
• Mumbai, India
19 Mar 16
@Shavkat yahh! They always come up with new ideas to fool others.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
19 Mar 16
I do not get the phone calls either on land or mobile all are blocked.
But of course do get the emails for sure..rubbish no one has won a thing lolz
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@Shavkat (140102)
• Philippines
19 Mar 16
@TiarasOceanView It is so lame to make someone win of something. They are just cheating themselves, too.
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@Macarrosel (7498)
• Philippines
19 Mar 16
I received a lot of emails telling me I won or I have millions of dollars to be deposited in my accounts. Scammers are everywhere.
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@Shavkat (140102)
• Philippines
19 Mar 16
@Macarrosel It seems people became modernized in scamming people.
@birjudanak (14320)
• India
20 Mar 16
this kind of message come on my phone to and lots of time but i know it scam and some people know its scam even give their details for money but they dont know they are cheaters....
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