We're urgently warning readers to ignore and not click the link as it could be a virus, malware, or a phishing scam. A lot of people still fall for this kind of scams (see how they make money out of this here). In a recent text message of this kind, I thought I'd indulge the scammer and play along to see how much effort they'd put into this. That's 1 hour of time the scammer wasted for nothing -- an hour he could have used to really scam others. Was thinking -- in a more crowd-sourcing kind of way -- if others can also take some time and waste this scammers time, then it might just frustrate them and make them think their MO isn't cost effective. Imagine if at least 100 people pretend to have a conversation with a scammer for one day just to make them busy, the promise of Php150 load might seem un-interesting. Do you have your own text scam story to tell? Belkin Philippines, together with Pismo Digital Lifestyle Inc., officially launches the new Linksys WRT-1900ac router in our country. Read more in our articles including ""Jollibee Spinwheelmania" link circulates on Messenger" and "realme P4 Series coming to the Philippines".
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Jul 26, 2012We're urgently warning readers to ignore and not click the link as it could be a virus, malware, or a phishing scam. A lot of people still fall for this kind of scams (see how they make money out of this here).
In a recent text message of this kind, I thought I'd indulge the scammer and play along to see how much effort they'd put into this. That's 1 hour of time the scammer wasted for nothing -- an hour he could have used to really scam others. Was thinking -- in a more crowd-sourcing kind of way -- if others can also take some time and waste this scammers time, then it might just frustrate them and make them think their MO isn't cost effective.
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