The National Telecommunications Commission of the Philippines alerted the public of text messaging scams like the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office or PCSO Text Scam. These text scams use legitimate non-government organizations such as foundations, agencies or even form a dummy company or agency. One of those non-existing agencies that victimized many cell phone users is the Philippine Charity Foundation (PCF) Text Scam. Scam artists even use genuine groups like the GMA Kapuso Foundation and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) to scam people via Text Messaging or SMS.

We personally received another text scam using the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) from mobile phone number +639204827074. Here is the PCSO Text Scam (with grammar and spellings) preserved: Read the rest of this entry »

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Are you addicted to texting? If yes, then be warned about the latest Philippine Charity Foundation (PCF) Text Scam where my wife was almost victimized by a certain Janet Lim who allegedly was an employee of the Philippines Charity Foundation.

Here is my wife’s story below:

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The Philippines, being dubbed as “the Texting Capital of the World”, is also a great market for cell phones and other high-tech gadgets like laptops/notebooks and MP3 players. In my opinion, Filipinos are truly fascinated by cellular phones and other high-tech gadgets because of curiosity. We can’t say that every Filipino can afford to buy a Blackberry 8320 phone or a Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic cell phones but Filipino culture saw that everything new and shiny is attractive to many Pinoys.

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