SUBSCRIBESMS/text scammer
Congrats!!! U win 500 worth of load, 2 claim ur price type 09198242743 and triple send to 808. PERMIT 1515# DTI #562526328 promo run until august 30 05 Txt now!
The SMS above came from +639198242743, an asshole scammer trying to con unwitting recipients wanting to get rich quick. For the past few months, unsoliticited scam SMSs have been proliferating and in one instance, it was even reported in the newspapers that a woman from Iloilo, thinking that she won in a lottery, as a scammer sent her a notice via SMS, with a price money of almost a million pesos sold her land to be able to go to Manila and claim the prize only to find out that she has been duped.
Good thing that the telcos are doing something about this one. In the case of Smart, it published a full page ad in the broadsheets warning subscribers of these false wins. Legitimate notices/calls will be done via call out from 7777, a specific number created for this purpose to ensure that the caller is from Smart.
By the way, the above SMS, if followed by the subscriber, transfers airtime load to the recipient after sending to access code 808.
