BEWARE NEW CELL PHONE SCAM, new modus operandi

Good day, iamcapricorn. Well, I had received a scam text message but of other format. The message said that he was my brother and I must load him 150. I know that this is a scam because I do not have a brother, but a sister. It was obvious that he was trying to fool me lol. Another message said that I won 200,000 in the raffle draw. It is also said that in order to claim my prize, I must load them 1000. I didn't join into it so why do I claim it? We must be aware of that. Happy mylotting...=)

I've received numerous versions of cell phone scams, like someone posing as a relative asking for load or contests which I have not joined (they even have DTI numbers!). I know many are aware of these scams. As for me, I just ignore it, especially if I have doubts of the sender's identity.

I am wary all these scam that's happening nowadays, I am wondering why there are heartless people who always think of bad things for their fellow men. Just keep distance yourself from these modus operandi. It is better safe than sorry.

Thanks for the information. I really hope more will be notified of this so as to avoid being victimized. And I also hope that those who will receive such text will use their common sense as you have used yours.

You gave good reasons for not falling into this one. If a number is not in your contact list, it is but prudent to think who is trying to contact you. But even if the number is registered in your phone, beware if they are asking for money. Who knows, somebody just stole the phone and using the contacts he/she found to have much load as possible before shutting the phone off.

Thank you so much for your concern and warning. I haven't received any scam of that nature yet but I'll sure be ready when I get one. You also need to be warned of a text message telling you you've won some money. I don't know how it completely goes but it involves the person asking you to call them. Be warned..

Hello iamcapricorn, good day to you my friend. Well, your welcome to be my friend that is why I approve your friend request, so if ever you have a problem here in this site, I will give you a hand as long as I can and as long as I know your problem. Well, let's go back to your discussion. Honestly speaking just like you iamcapricorn, i already recieved that kind of modus operandi regarding to cellphone load, i think the only reason why people do this thing is to gain money, for the good of their need they really want to scam people for a small amount of money due to the low economy. In my own based opinion the reason why people became scamers it's because of the status of the economy of their country, where many people really hard to find money and that's why they think that this is one easy way for them to earn. Well, i guess sometimes they also scam for a very huge amount of money which is also the reason why they are in jailed. If our government will really give job to all people, our country will no longer feel crisis because atleast they earn a good amount of money and if that thing will happen i do believed scamers population will decrease. By the way, I would like to share my experience in some street and store, while walking i got insufficient balance with my phone and i really need to be shared a load. I go to a store, then ask for a sharing load and the vendor told me that why you need to be shared? Why don't you try to load your phone with a regular load and i will give you a good discount, then I go try to load about 30 php load and you know what is the price of that load? It's only about 15 pesos! Then i begin to think about it and i figure out that may be that people doing bad thing to load me up for that particular amount. Then after going to school my classmate told me that i must be aware of those people who sell load for a very small price. Which I encounter while walking. Well, i guess that's all the end of my response in your good discussion! Thank you! Happy posting and happy earning to everyone of us here in mylot.