I found this hilarious message at Karachi Metroblog. The spelling mistakes are included for free for your entertainment.
By the way, don’t forget to send the NIC with your phone if you want the millions promised below.
LOL – this guy sends spam via sms and asks you to mail all the info!
The sad part is that too much of such SMS fraud is now happening in Pakistan. I guess this is what we can call ‘Scam Spam.’ Do you have any stories of your favorite SMS Scams?
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Babar Bhatti blogs at telecompk, where this was originally published.
Actually, telephone scams are also rising. Someone calls and congratulates you that you have won a car. They ask then that you can have it sent to your home and quote a fee for doing that. That is where the scam is.
Ah sms spamming has become the bane of my existence. Its just so irritating
My worry about the SMS culture is different. As more and more young people learn to write only for SMS I worry about what happens to their writing skills, vocabulary, spellings, and grammar. Even in some comments here, I see people using inanities like ‘ur’, ‘dat’, etc. Its not as if the language skills of our young were great to begin with, and this SMS business is killing whatever was left!
Asad, last time I was there I was almost a victim of that fraud.
I received a txt on my telenor line saying, I won this Telenor contest and dial this number to win 500 rupees credit in my account..
I was skeptical of that but I dialed nonetheless.
So it said I don’t have sufficient balance in my account to transfer to another account (i only had 9 some ruppes).
I also received some messages with the contact info of girl’s name… I guess this was more of an exploit rather than a fraud.
More than funny it is scary. I keep hearing stories of all types of SMS fraud. Like getting a message saying you have won extra minutes and asked to click some numbers. Instead of you getting extra minutes, someone else gets your minutes!