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MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by bright007(f): 2:19pm On Jul 29, 2012
There is this scam alert being sent to MTN numbers now,infact I have up to 10 already,it reads thus:

Hon.Dr Leonard Nwagu,
MTN national protocol is celebrating his birthday today .Send this message to 15 people and get N750 recharge card.sms is free.

Once again it is scam,don't waste ur credit cos u won't get anything.

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Afam4eva(m): 2:25pm On Jul 29, 2012
Thanks for alerting us. I got the text a few hours ago and I suspected it was fraud when I was told that the text message was free. MTN Is not a free network.

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by bright007(f): 3:24pm On Jul 29, 2012
afam4eva: Thanks for alerting us. I got the text a few hours ago and I suspected it was fraud when I was told that the text message was free. MTN Is not a free network.
å lot of my friends have fallen prey ooo.them don send no be small.I wonder what d first sender was thinking shaaa.
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Henries: 3:30pm On Jul 29, 2012
Though txt message is free,i actually feel for d scam n i felt stupid cos i actually got 2 church late 2day bussy sendin d fuckin scam.
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Enoquin(f): 4:21pm On Jul 29, 2012
I hissed immediately I got the message and deleted it instantly...free 750 indeed!

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by mosix4real: 4:38pm On Jul 29, 2012
I have been getting a lot of scam messages for quite a while now (Nokia scam, Iphone scam, glo scam). I wonder what our great contry is turning into?
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by sucezTP(f): 4:58pm On Jul 29, 2012
I knew it!
It has happened before! It is here again and it wouldn't stop happening!

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by ikee(m): 5:07pm On Jul 29, 2012
yes i got the message this morning and knew it was scam. I even threatened the person that sent me the message that i will block his line grin grin, the guy later called and begin to apologise grin

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Nobody: 5:32pm On Jul 29, 2012
Yeah, but where could this originate from?

And what is this? Some new way of promoting events or what? *SMH
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by yommy2sure(m): 5:33pm On Jul 29, 2012
I hissed when i saw it too. Its not new, i wonder why some of my contacts fell for it

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Series22(m): 5:34pm On Jul 29, 2012
Tears.. And i fell 4 d scam.. I needed 1500 so i sent to 20 ppl.. Chaii. My money o! But poster, u shuld hv said dis earliar na
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Egelife(m): 5:34pm On Jul 29, 2012
If it is a scam, wat does d fraudster stand to gain?

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Abyjah: 5:36pm On Jul 29, 2012
I wonder whether I'll ever fall for all these frigging scams?!

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Abyjah: 5:43pm On Jul 29, 2012
HQ: Yeah, but where could this originate from?

And what is this? Some new way of promoting events or what? *SMH
That's the most probable motive.
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by FKO1(m): 5:43pm On Jul 29, 2012
Ha MTN don make sum nigerians desperate for r'charge card.
Face it,MTN will never give u N100 nt to talk of N750,they are too stingy !
Join the winning,join ETIBABA(etisalat).

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by eldagaius(m): 5:44pm On Jul 29, 2012
If u had fallen for this cheap lie, then you need 2 be careful over other scam texts. So how will MTN monitor who sent wot?
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by ariy(m): 5:46pm On Jul 29, 2012
[quote
author=Henries]Though txt message is free,i actually feel for d scam n i
felt stupid cos i actually got 2 church late 2day bussy sendin d fuckin
scam.[/quote]
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Sunbellar: 5:48pm On Jul 29, 2012
Only greedy people can easily be scammed just for #750. I dont need their awfu money

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by alaoeri: 5:52pm On Jul 29, 2012
I just laugh at ppl sending such message why 'll MTN be generous like that, the most stingy network. Nigerians too like awuf that's why they easily fall fȍr cheap scam.
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by EzePromoe: 5:54pm On Jul 29, 2012
The scam is as a result of the weekend free SMS MTN are giving. People looking for ways to exhaust their SMS.

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Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by redsquare(m): 5:58pm On Jul 29, 2012
I am surprised people still fall for this kinda scam till this day.
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Nobody: 5:58pm On Jul 29, 2012
I received †ђξ messages too and sent it straight τ☺ hell (Trash Bin)
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Ashabam(m): 6:00pm On Jul 29, 2012
Henries: Though txt message is free,i actually feel for d scam n i felt stupid cos i actually got 2 church late 2day bussy sendin d fuckin scam.
laughing
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by y2kaustin(m): 6:00pm On Jul 29, 2012
Gej,should have hand in this,very sure and i have prove.
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by YungG(m): 6:03pm On Jul 29, 2012
bright007: There is this scam alert being sent to MTN numbers now,infact I have up to 10 already,it reads thus:

Hon.Dr Leonard Nwagu,
MTN national protocol is celebrating his birthday today .Send this message to 15 people and get N750 recharge card.sms is free.

Once again it is scam,don't waste ur credit cos u won't get anything.
Dont mind incompetent fools reaping where they did nt sow..
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by greatgod2012(f): 6:05pm On Jul 29, 2012
na wa oooooooo
naija pple too like awufu sha, how can one fall for such a scam msg, especially when it has to do with MTN
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Kelvinj(m): 6:07pm On Jul 29, 2012
LOL MTN gives nothing free
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by Nobody: 6:07pm On Jul 29, 2012
I had 150 free sms and i have been looking for a way to waste it so i simply sent the so called test messages to 10MTN numbers. grin
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by dirahm: 6:13pm On Jul 29, 2012
Got sometin similar dis morning bt mine simply said mtn ws rewarding its customers wit N750 cdt & shld send 2 ten numbers free & get mine automatically. Read it & wondered dat such lines were still being used & 2 believe ple still fell 4 it. Haba!!!
Re: MTN SMS About N750 Recharge Card Is A Scam Beware by gramci: 6:14pm On Jul 29, 2012
y2kaustin: Gej,should have hand in this,very sure and i have prove.

El rufai must have a better prove than yours.

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