What do I make of this text message? (Legit or scam?)

**Alpha_One** · June 16th, 2007 10:22 PM

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?

**claRkEnt** · June 16th, 2007 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Alpha_One

...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!!!

**landlord** · June 16th, 2007 10:43 PM

Have received a message with exactly the same text some months ago.

**chain** · June 16th, 2007 10:51 PM

scam. eh di dapat nagpakilala man lang siya.

**Lucius** · June 16th, 2007 10:53 PM

Ang importante nyang sabihin ay "Thank you for the load" hehehehe

**n2knee** · June 16th, 2007 11:46 PM

nakuha ko exact message na yan. tinawagan ko pero di sumasagot.

**alwayz_yummy** · June 17th, 2007 06:58 AM

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...

**funkngruvn** · June 17th, 2007 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by Kapitan

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!

**alwayz_yummy** · June 17th, 2007 07:53 AM

funk sana 2 pesos nalang pinasa mo, hehehe

**mayana** · June 17th, 2007 05:13 PM

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!