Early this morning I got a text/SMS message:
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The mobile number of the sender is +6391976677293.
It is easy to know that this is a scam since the originating number is a mobile number, not a special 3 or 4 number code.
Talk’s rife with the nursing licensure fiasco with both sides stating that a retest is/is not required. Curiosly, the PRC is siding with the latter, a somewhat shameless decision that made many scream with “COVERUP.”
Licensure exam leakage is not new. Even during my time to take the engineering licensure exams has already been going on. And that was almost 10 years ago. I bet that it has been going on for many many years.
The practice? Whenever the board/licensure exams draws near, review centers usually have these special classes, at a special rate wherein the reviewers are kept in house and compiled papers are given. The contents are not discussions but questions with multiple choices and, what makes this different is that the answers are already given. They are then told to memorize the answers, to go again and again the almost thousand questions. From these, only a few hundred makes it to the actual board exams with some questions being new.
Curiosly, the review centers in the provinces have high passing rates compared to those in Metro Manila. Also, competition between review centers is quite high and each owner is bragging with their connections with the board examiners. As one review center owner/instructor says, he’s proud of his dwarves up there (PRC).
And they think that its affecting only the nursing exams? They should review all board exam courses and have new PRC exam commissioners that are not tainted.
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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.
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