It was August 17, 2010 at around 8:20pm, I was on my way to work when I received this message from a non-registered phone number saying that I won the second prize worth P950,00 thru they're draw last August 17, 2010. Knew from the start that this was a scam because of several reasons. First, I did not recall any raffle draw that I joined in recently, second there was no DTI#, third is that PCF does not exist, and lastly IM NOT THAT STUPID to buy the information! duh! That is why I did not bother to answer the message afterall.
I googled the Philippine Charity Foundation and found out some blogs about this scam that has been around since 2008.
Here are some of the published stories:
latest text scam the philippine charity foundation pcf text scam
ABS-CBN News Text Scam Warning
and if you google "Philippine Charity Foundation" you will have about 697,000 hits with different stories about the scam
So for everyone's protection, I, too blogged about this.
Hey, I even took photos of the actual text message:
just be careful, ayt!
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