This morning my wife and I received this message on our phones:
CONGRATULATIONS! Anda memenangi WANG TUNAI RM11,000.00 dari DiGi. Info sila hubungi perkhidmatan DiGi: 006281388573569. Syarat dan Terma Tertakluk.
Sender: DiGi
Straight away, alarm bells went off in my head (it sounds like the red alert alarm on the Starship Enterprise).
- Why does the number seem like an overseas number?
- I didn’t join any Digi contest
- Why doesn’t it address me by name?
- Why do I have to call them? They should call me right?
- Why mix up English with BM? Doesn’t seem professional.
- Why sent to me and my wife too?
Anyone else received this message? Did you call them back?
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July 10, 2007 at 10:18
That number IS an overseas number. If I am not mistaken, Indonesian, but I stand corrected. If at all DIGI is going to have a contest to award a RM11,000.00 prize, I am sure they would have advertised this contest well in advance. Usually I just delete the sms.
July 10, 2007 at 11:34
i’m on maxis so i’m not sure. but the next best thing when u receive this sorta smses is to always delete them. i think it resembles those AF4 scam earlier on…
anyways!
hey, i noticed ur blog is always down for half a day (at most) everytime i log in. u might want to look into it and check with ur server or something…
July 10, 2007 at 11:55
@Pablo: A little part of me was hoping that it was a real deal. The weird thing is I got a missed call from that number yesterday afternoon too.
@Leishia: Tell me about it. I have complained to Exabytes but they deny there is anything wrong with their server. In fact, I use a web service to monitor my site uptime, and my site will go down once a day on average. Sigh… I wonder if this is affecting my web traffic or not.