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Forums › Telecom New Zealand, XT Network, Yahoo!Xtra › Getting scam TXT messages 'your cellular has been chosen by Irish Lottery'


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Topic # 71106 4-Nov-2010 23:18 Send private message

Just got an SMS message from shortcode +502 saying "Your Cellular has been chosen by Irish Lottery, contact Mr. Morgan on email: xxxxx@gmail.com for more info"

Anyone else get this? 

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Wannabe Geek
  Reply # 400456 5-Nov-2010 07:19 Send private message

My wife received the same  sms at 10:37pm nz time last night.  Looks like spam to me. 

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  Reply # 400484 5-Nov-2010 09:12 Send private message

I'll get someone to look into this.




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