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nwamaina
#1 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 2:52:22 PM
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How many of you fellow wazuans have realized that the scam game "lotteries" have shifted base from TV to mobile phone platforms,there is one annoyingly persistent one running from 888 and always sending messages into my airtel line in-spite of my deactivation attempts...it has very silly questions...sample this..what does a co produce (a)water (b)honey (c)milk...then at the very end there is a very small hint that the sms costs 25/- only...why are cell phone companies perpetrating this kind of impunity...imagine the fellows being conned per hour with this nonsense.These silly things only happen during per-general elections period....washindwe hawa...kudos to genuine ones like sweepstake etc
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Gordon Gekko
#2 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:08:57 PM
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So how have you attempted to deactivate? I'm getting the same irritating SMS messages after I first sent an SMS thinking it would be the only one. BTW, have you heard of anyone who has won the 100K they give everyday?
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danas10
#3 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:15:21 PM
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am told unsubscribing is not effected immediately....they are like bugs...u dont easily shake them off Sad otherwise how else will they make money if everyone unsubscribes upon realising its a scam...its like those others sijui receive daily msgs on love, romance bla bla bla and they charge extra.
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dijkstra
#4 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 3:39:42 PM
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try send words like STOP, UNSUBSCRIBE, QUIT to the number. they normally don't tell u how to stop. i had same problem with some number and i had to call severally, finally they gave me the number to call 'IT Manager' to have my number deleted from the database. it worked. they always try to complicate the process.
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nwamaina
#5 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:08:38 PM
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Lets us continue en lighting others and minimize chances of being conned...Nairobi is full of people looking for easy money without sweating for it and a greater number working hard to make the moolah e.g most wazuans so hao wa sms cons.....washindwe
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chemos
#6 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:15:55 PM
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wacheni tamaa ya getting rich quick...
Fanyeni kazi kwa bidii...
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Burning Spear
#7 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 5:33:12 PM
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I am waiting for such companies to send me such an sms and deduct my hard earned cash.
The next stop will be Kioko Kilukumi's law office and we argue on infrigement to privacy,theft etc.This will make me richer.
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it". Malcolm X
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tony stark
#8 Posted : Wednesday, October 05, 2011 5:59:47 PM
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nwamaina wrote:
How many of you fellow wazuans have realized that the scam game "lotteries" have shifted base from TV to mobile phone platforms,there is one annoyingly persistent one running from 888 and always sending messages into my airtel line in-spite of my deactivation attempts...it has very silly questions...sample this..what does a co produce (a)water (b)honey (c)milk...then at the very end there is a very small hint that the sms costs 25/- only...why are cell phone companies perpetrating this kind of impunity...imagine the fellows being conned per hour with this nonsense.These silly things only happen during per-general elections period....washindwe hawa...kudos to genuine ones like sweepstake etc


This is a hard question .........
What does a co produce??? Niambie please!
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nwamaina
#9 Posted : Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:55:57 AM
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@tony stark...sorry for the grammatical error(s) I meant cow not co..
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Impunity
#10 Posted : Thursday, October 06, 2011 8:39:12 AM
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nwamaina wrote:
@tony stark...sorry for the grammatical error(s) I meant cow not co..


A cow could produce honey.
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Foz00
#11 Posted : Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:26:30 AM
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dijkstra wrote:
try send words like STOP, UNSUBSCRIBE, QUIT to the number. they normally don't tell u how to stop. i had same problem with some number and i had to call severally, finally they gave me the number to call 'IT Manager' to have my number deleted from the database. it worked. they always try to complicate the process.


each attempt will cost you 25 "errors are billed"
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me&myself
#12 Posted : Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:49:00 AM
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Its actually Airtel sending the messages.... not a separate lottery....complaints registered from West africa all the way to india....

you can write an email to Airtel customer service asking them to exclude you from their lotteries... hope it works...
Do things simply;
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Do simple things
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Elder
#13 Posted : Thursday, October 06, 2011 2:38:12 PM
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Impunity wrote:
nwamaina wrote:
@tony stark...sorry for the grammatical error(s) I meant cow not co..


A cow could produce honey.
Laughing out loudly

Stop misleading people. Ni maji.
He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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butterflyke
#14 Posted : Thursday, October 06, 2011 6:47:30 PM
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Kuingia harusi, kutoka matanga and it you become less rich at every attempt....
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