Sunday, April 6, 2008

Beware of Conmen Messages..............

This morning at exactly 6.51 am... my phone's light was blinking ......beside my bed notifying me there was a message for me.......wondering who it would be at this early hour on a Sunday morning.....i decided to pull myself up to read it.....this is what i got................

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It says...Pengirim: (sender in Bahasa Malaysia) is Hotlink.........

One look at the message..... i know it is a fake...........the reasons:-

no.1.....Money does not drop down from 'the sky' just like that......

no.2.....This con man does not even know how to spell congratulation correctly.

no.3.....Hotlink's phoneline does not have so many numbers...(13 nos. here).

Have any of you recieved this type of SMS lately........? But from the news, we used to see quite a number of people get conned of their money by these con experts.....due to ignorance or can be greediness on their part too.......

Dear readers.....please tell us about your experiences on this......people should be more aware about this matter......before more are being conned.......

8 comments:

Kok said...

sweet jasmine,
You're clever. Lucky you did not response to the sms. If not, you may be conned by this guy.

Sweet Jasmine said...

kok - yeah...yeah..i'm not so stupid to buy that trick....even i hope for such a windfall...he..he..

limaubali said...

sweet jasmine,
you are not the only person received this. My friend got it on friday.Agreed with you money won't just fall from the sky.....

Little Corner of Mine said...

We have lots of these con artists in US. They sent through junk mails or call you at your house. Whenever I received this kind of mail, in the trash it went.

Sweet Jasmine said...

limaubali- i think there are many con-artist out there waiting to hook the gullible....

Sweet Jasmine said...

little corner of mine - we also do have them call us on our phones too...some caller from China...use mandarin...and i use this trick my eldest son taught me...if they speak chinese...you answer in bahasa malaysia...and if they use english....answer back in chinese and pretend you don't understand them....then they will not call back again....what a nuisance...

Zooropa said...

My hubby got something like this (also "said" fr hotlink wth different message winning RM20k) months ago but like u, look at it we can know it's fake obviously!

Dora:)

Sweet Jasmine said...

zoorapa -yr hubby was clever enough not to get con.....