My email inbox suddenly stopped receiving spam emails on ED drugs sale or discount. The old, hoax mail of million dollar inheritance and investment money are back. I mean, hello?! Do these spammers think that people forget? But then I guess there are still people out there that remains gullible to such offers in the mail.

On Friday morning, while I was waiting for my order at Jollibee Sorsogon…i received the following SMS in my cellphone: (I’m copying it here exactly how the text was written)

D/Auditor/s of PGMA Charity foundation inform u dat ur cel# Won P950,000 2nd prize winner draw last:JUL-17-2008 DTI1550 s2008 call now i’m Atty. William F. Gomez

Well…it’s been a long while since I last did forwarded SMSs or emails for that matter and I’m sorry to some few who keep including me in their mailing list for such forwarded emails — i DELETE them immediately, yes without even reading it first.

Going back to those hoax/spam SMSs: I searched Google for ‘PGMA Charity Foundation’ and bloggers’ accounts of receving such spam SMS date back to as old as 20o5. I remember my brother getting SMSs that he won a car in some contest. Even my mother who only send SMSs to her friends and some of our relatives purely for important stuff get those kinds of SMS!

Of course we knew better than believe such kinds of hoax. We never replied, we delete the SMS or email immediately. We just get a good laugh out of it at home.

It’s just simple logic right? For instance, we never joined any kind of contest that involves texting, not even those legit ones we see on most local TV shows any time of day. Why would one expect to win something if you haven’t join any contest? You know it’s like wishing you’d win the lottery but never bought any lottery tickets. Besides, there is no such thing as a free meal in the world, right? (Well that line isn’t exactly mine. Somebody told me about it, some author of some book but I forgot. He he!)

However, I don’t blame other people who might believe such kinds of hoax at first glance, especially those who maybe do not have the resources to counter check on the web or somewhere/someone else legit that won’t take advantage of you.

Well you know here in the Philippines…everyone has a mobile phone and everyone is texting like crazy — sad to say even people who do not have real jobs and even have the audacity to do SMS for fun and mess other people’s lives. But then that is another story. ;-)

Anyway…I wonder what’s next in the spammers’ menu? Offers of health insurance with medicare advantage? Even this blog has suddenly been getting drug spam emails after a very long hiatus from them. It might be fun watching what’s going to be next but it does pay to be more vigilant than normal. If you don’t know the name of the sender? Delete it! That’s what I do.

Now wonder I don’t get mails and SMSs from people any more…I might have deleted legit ones! Ha ha ha. Gosh. Well…if you are my friend or relative saying ‘hello’ and ‘what’s up’ you can keep resending the email or the SMS if I haven’t replied for days. Better yet…you can just call me. ;-) He he.