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    June 16th, 2007 10:22 PM #1
    I received the following text message this afternoon from an unknown number (hindi ko na ipapaskil for privacy reasons):

    May importante akong sasabihin sayo. Hindi na ako makakareply call back ka nalang o share 5 pesos na load. Eto bagong number ko,
    I'm inclined to think that this is a scam because:
    - Hindi nagpakilala ("bagong number" raw, may presumption na kilala ko ang nagpadala)
    - Kung importante, I'm sure it was worth his/her while to send me what he/she wanted to say in the first text message (i.e. yung nasa taas). If it was really that important, I'm sure the information was much more valuable than 5 pesos or a few minutes worth of load on a phone call.

    On the one hand...:
    - 5 pesos lang ang hinihinging load. Parang masyado maliit para sa isang scam

    ...but on the other hand:
    - Pareho kami ng network. It's highly possible that this person's unlimited text session is running out and he/she's just fishing for some extra load for another unli-text session.

    Hindi na ako sumagot. I don't reply to texts from unknown numbers whose senders don't identify themselves. Ang tanong ko lang is, what do you think of it? Nakatanggap na ba kayo ng ganitong message?
    Last edited by Alpha_One; June 16th, 2007 at 10:24 PM. Reason: tpyo correciotn
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    June 16th, 2007 10:27 PM #2
    Quote Originally Posted by Alpha_One View Post
    ...but on the other hand:
    - Pareho kami ng network. It's highly possible that this person's unlimited text session is running out and he/she's just fishing for some extra load for another unli-text session.
    yan na yun! mismo!!!
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    June 16th, 2007 10:43 PM #3
    Have received a message with exactly the same text some months ago.
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    June 16th, 2007 10:51 PM #4
    scam. eh di dapat nagpakilala man lang siya.
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    June 16th, 2007 10:53 PM #5
    Ang importante nyang sabihin ay "Thank you for the load" hehehehe
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    June 16th, 2007 11:46 PM #6
    nakuha ko exact message na yan. tinawagan ko pero di sumasagot.
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    June 17th, 2007 06:58 AM #7
    nakarecieve din ako ng ganyang ganyan...di ko nga pinasaha sabi ko panga

    (nek nek mo!)

    sa mom ko 20 ang hinihingi, buti nandun ako, papasahan na nya...
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    June 17th, 2007 07:13 AM #8
    Quote Originally Posted by Kapitan View Post
    Ang importante nyang sabihin ay "Thank you for the load" hehehehe
    nge! tama sir! pinasahan ko kasi ng 4 e 10 ang hinihingi, para lang malaman ko mangyayari.. tapos nagtext back "maraming salamat kuripot!" grrrrr!
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    June 17th, 2007 07:53 AM #9
    funk sana 2 pesos nalang pinasa mo, hehehe
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    June 17th, 2007 05:13 PM #10
    The other day I received a text message na nanalo raw ako ng P250K sa BSP raffle. 0922 yung number, ang ginawa ko i sent the message back to him. Ehehe, hindi sumagot!
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    June 17th, 2007 06:17 PM #11
    ako naman may nakuha akong text na "sir assistant po ito ni dr.tan kailangan daw bumili ng medicine para sa mama niyo. please text back where we can meet ako na po ang bibili..."

    funny coz i was beside my mom in the car at that moment. and we both don't know a dr.tan. beware of scammers!
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    June 17th, 2007 07:02 PM #12
    Nangyari na sa akin yan may emergency kailangan daw ng pera.. I called the number and sumagot naman ang sinabi ko InterPol ako.. ayun binaba, natakot... tinatawagan ko ayaw na sagutin, three days ko tinatawagan hehehehe nung minsan sumagot, nanay nya yata. Sabi ko i surrender na nya yung anak nya sa NBI, naging hysterical yung nanay yata kaya binaba ko na lang.
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    June 18th, 2007 11:13 AM #13
    kung magkakilala talaga kayo, dun sa 1st text nya nagpakilala na sana sya at sabihin na eto bago number nya..
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    June 18th, 2007 11:17 AM #14
    may kumakagat ba jan? hehehe
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    June 18th, 2007 01:38 PM #15
    May importante akong sasabihin sayo. Hindi na ako makakareply call back ka nalang o share 5 pesos na load. Eto bagong number ko,
    naku? na receive ko din itong txt na ito. d ko sinagot.. d din ako nagbigay ng load, di ko naman sya kilala... sayang lang 5 petot ko. hehehe!!! scam po yan.
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    June 19th, 2007 01:11 AM #16
    i got the same text message a few weeks back. dinedma ko na lang. scam yan.
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    June 20th, 2007 04:03 AM #17
    bat di mo na lang tinawagan? ang mura mura na lang ng tawag e...
    kung globe may 232+10digit. kung ayaw sumagot, baka nantitrip lang.
    hindi naman malaking kawalan ang tumawag ka diba?
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    June 21st, 2007 12:30 AM #18
    100% scam yan. Na receive ko na rin to. Dedma lang.
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