Getting scam TXT messages 'your cellular has been chosen by Irish Lottery'

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Kyanar

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#71106 4-Nov-2010 23:18

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?

mikeoneil

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#400456 5-Nov-2010 07:19

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

NealR

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#400484 5-Nov-2010 09:12

I'll get someone to look into this.

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