#SCAM TEXTS

After the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) ordered for text blast against recent surge of text scams, the agency now has urged the telco giants to deactivate clickable links in text messages. 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? There's a lot of new text scam going around but this one I just got this afternoon targets postpaid subscribers. Read more in our articles including "NTC orders telcos to block clickable links in text messages" and "A conversation with a Text Scammer".