“I’M RICH NOW! I’M SO FRIGGIN RICH I’M GOING TO BUY A PRIVATE JET AND USE IT AS A PAPERWEIGHT!”
Few days ago, I received an e-mail telling me than I won 960, 000.00 euros (more or less 60 million pesos) in a lottery held in Spain. The letter said I won when my e-mail address was randomly selected. Suddenly, I'm rich!
But of course, I ignored it. You have to be crazy to fall for that kind of scam. I excitedly clicked open another e-mail entitled Nude Angel Locsin Pictures, which also turned out to be a hoax. It really was a chain e-mail asking me to pray an incantation that came with the letter while hanging upside down from the ceiling then foreward it to my ten gorgeous, millionaire friends or else something terribly bad will happen to me. Like a certain Jun Lozada accusing me of extorting one hundred million dollars without any evidence backing up his claim except having nuns by his side and saying that ‘Nasa Panig Ko Ang Katotohanan!’ I’m willing to recite the incantation while hanging upside down but I don’t have millionaire friends to forward it to. All my friends are just gorgeous.
Then, this morning, I read the column of Linda Bolido (The Consumer, read the full article here.) on Philippine Daily Inquirer that one of her readers almost got duped by that lottery scam. The reader replied to that e-mail hoping ‘it might be a dream come true.’
The lottery company called the reader on his mobile phone and asked him, in a very persuasive manner, to make an initial deposit of from 1,000 euros (about 65 thousand pesos) to 2,500 euros to cover the fees in processing the prize money. Because he can’t provide that amount of money, the reader stopped communicating with the ‘company.’
Subsequently, he got this message from the ‘company:’
“I do not understand your reason for being so skeptical after you have been so lucky to have emerged a winner of our jackpot sum of one million euros, you should be the happiest man on earth presently, for over a billion of individuals, I inclusive (sic), would have loved to be in your shoes presently.”
The reader still gnored that letter. But if he got the money needed to process the prize money, he would probably have consummated the deal with the lottery company.
And that boggles the mind.
How could you fall for this kind of scam which has been repeatedly exposed? Life is hard? Who doesn’t dream of getting his hands on a ridiculously huge amount of money these days? Sino ba ang hindi nangangarap huminto sa pagtatrabaho at mamuhay ng walang gagawin kundi ang magpahinga at maglibang at maglaro? Lalo na iyong mga taong simula ng magkaisip ay pagtatrabahao na agad ang inatupag upang makatulong sa pamilya. Yes, lucky are those people who at the tender age of thirty are still kalabit-penge with their parents.
I’m a bum by choice, their t-shirt would proudly declare.
We all need money. But never let your need take over your common sense. Think twice, thrice before letting go of your hard-earned money just because somebody is telling you that it will earn you ten times or twenty times or fifty times the amount of that money. Pakaisipin natin na habang humihirap ang buhay ay dumarami ang mga manggagantso at mang-oonse.
Bear in mind that if something is too good to be true, it usually is. Just like what Linda Bolido said in her column, you can’t win lots of money without doing something.
Nothing will come out of nothing.
But of course, I ignored it. You have to be crazy to fall for that kind of scam. I excitedly clicked open another e-mail entitled Nude Angel Locsin Pictures, which also turned out to be a hoax. It really was a chain e-mail asking me to pray an incantation that came with the letter while hanging upside down from the ceiling then foreward it to my ten gorgeous, millionaire friends or else something terribly bad will happen to me. Like a certain Jun Lozada accusing me of extorting one hundred million dollars without any evidence backing up his claim except having nuns by his side and saying that ‘Nasa Panig Ko Ang Katotohanan!’ I’m willing to recite the incantation while hanging upside down but I don’t have millionaire friends to forward it to. All my friends are just gorgeous.
Then, this morning, I read the column of Linda Bolido (The Consumer, read the full article here.) on Philippine Daily Inquirer that one of her readers almost got duped by that lottery scam. The reader replied to that e-mail hoping ‘it might be a dream come true.’
The lottery company called the reader on his mobile phone and asked him, in a very persuasive manner, to make an initial deposit of from 1,000 euros (about 65 thousand pesos) to 2,500 euros to cover the fees in processing the prize money. Because he can’t provide that amount of money, the reader stopped communicating with the ‘company.’
Subsequently, he got this message from the ‘company:’
“I do not understand your reason for being so skeptical after you have been so lucky to have emerged a winner of our jackpot sum of one million euros, you should be the happiest man on earth presently, for over a billion of individuals, I inclusive (sic), would have loved to be in your shoes presently.”
The reader still gnored that letter. But if he got the money needed to process the prize money, he would probably have consummated the deal with the lottery company.
And that boggles the mind.
How could you fall for this kind of scam which has been repeatedly exposed? Life is hard? Who doesn’t dream of getting his hands on a ridiculously huge amount of money these days? Sino ba ang hindi nangangarap huminto sa pagtatrabaho at mamuhay ng walang gagawin kundi ang magpahinga at maglibang at maglaro? Lalo na iyong mga taong simula ng magkaisip ay pagtatrabahao na agad ang inatupag upang makatulong sa pamilya. Yes, lucky are those people who at the tender age of thirty are still kalabit-penge with their parents.
I’m a bum by choice, their t-shirt would proudly declare.
We all need money. But never let your need take over your common sense. Think twice, thrice before letting go of your hard-earned money just because somebody is telling you that it will earn you ten times or twenty times or fifty times the amount of that money. Pakaisipin natin na habang humihirap ang buhay ay dumarami ang mga manggagantso at mang-oonse.
Bear in mind that if something is too good to be true, it usually is. Just like what Linda Bolido said in her column, you can’t win lots of money without doing something.
Nothing will come out of nothing.
Comments
Pati nga 'yong mga scam sa text, nababalita sa TV na marami pa ring nau-unggoy. Puwede ka sigurong magpakatanga sa ibang bagay pero sa mga ganitong klase ng panloloko, e, hindi siguro kapata-patawad ang magpakatanga.
Paano ka naman kasi mananalo sa isang pa-contest na hindi mo naman sinalihan? Naalala ko tuloy 'yong joke tungkol sa isang pulubi,dasal siya ng dasal na sana ay tumama siya sa lotto. Araw-araw, nasa simbahan siya at 'yon at 'yon ang idinarasal niya.
Hanggang kausapin na siya ng nakapakong si Kristo. Sabi sa kanya ni Kristo, "Iho, bago ko tuparin 'yang dasal mo, bumili ka muna ng tiket."