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Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by CreativeWeb(m): 4:09pm On Jan 14, 2015
i saw one of these spam comments on gtbank facebook page while reading a post. The guy asked people to visit this site: http://mtnbonuspromo.cf/ to claim there recharge bonus. As a webmaster and someone that knows it's a scam, I decided to open the site. I was asked to type in my promo PIN inside a text field. I just typed 2667. And the page reloaded and said congratulations {2667}. You have been approved to win so so amount of recharge bonus. I was then asked to quickly rush and buy an mtn recharge card of #200, #400, #750 or #1500 and then enter my phone number and the recharge PIN in text fields below so that mtn can credit my account with the bonus. I typed in: 08012345678 as my phone number and then typed 123456789012 as my #1500 mtn PIN. I clicked recharge, and the page reloaded and sent to loading.php where a gif image is booting with a message under it that says I should not refresh my browser and that I should wait for 6 hours so that mtn can process it. There is also a warning that my line will be blocked if I put wrong PIN five times.

Very funny.

The guys are not smart at all.

They can only dupe a f00l.
Reasons:
If it's MTN, the promo code must be authenticated.
If it's MTN, the promo recharge will not last up to 6 hours.

The guy just developed a phpsite with a mysql database and sits in his room grabbing the data from the back-end and recharging his phone. Very funny.
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by Nobody: 4:11pm On Jan 14, 2015
them dey learn work for were you dey!!
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by cirmuell(m): 4:29pm On Jan 14, 2015
from the url alone, you should know it's fake.
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by ivoatt(m): 4:34pm On Jan 14, 2015
even without typing 2667 in textarea. just leave it empty and enter. dey are once called NCC FREE.
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by Nobody: 5:00pm On Jan 14, 2015
D page is not even neat.
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by Nobody: 5:28pm On Jan 14, 2015
Good work. Keep naming and shaming these useless scammers.
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by Nobody: 8:26pm On Jan 14, 2015
Na real wa o. But a greedy person will do it
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by Positivist: 10:49pm On Jan 14, 2015
Scammers only scam greedy people.
Re: Are These Scammers Smart Enough? by adewasco2k(m): 11:38pm On Jan 14, 2015
Lol grin #learners

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