Tricks and cheats are happening every times, everywhere over the world. Many methods of making money have been done both legally and illegally such as faking information or document. I received one message through my mobile phone at around 10:00 pm on last Saturday evening from one of acquaintances. The message read as following:
“Bad news, today in the Olympic market, there are 3 ladies lost consciousness, because they got H1N1 while they came back from Thailand. Now they stay in the Calemet Hospital. So please, share this information to your family, friends and Cambodian people, be careful! To protect this virus, when you go out, please wear a mask and clean hand with soap. Please forward this SMS to everyone to protect our Cambodian people.”
After reading it, I personally judged that it was true story and then I forwarded it to friend of mine. After declaring from the government official, this news is not true. Mr. Ly Sovann, deputy director of the Communicable Diseases Control Department at the Ministry of Health, said that there are no signs of the virus after testing market vendors, and he added that health officials will continue to examine their health until the end of the month.
I used to get message from friends and acquaintances to help forward message to other friends and families in order to get bonus from mobile phone service providers when 5 or 10 messages were forwarded. And later, I got this secret information from friend of mine who was working for Phone Companies by saying that it is trick of companies in order to make profit.
Therefore, I personally noticed that the rumor of outbreak of infliction of swine flu is possibly made by someone or phone companies in an attempt to make money through SMS charges. Now I and all of you should reconsider before forwarding message while getting unbelievable, strange messages from friends and someone who ask to help forward it to others.
I received this text too
I never receive this text. If i did receive I wouldn’t have forward it any ways.
My phone is still have a lot of free sms on it, I don’t see how the phone company can profit more from me
When I got promotion SMS from company i did not forward it to friends of mine. It is ok if you have free message but some one who has not free message it would be charged when SMS was forwarded. It is the kind of making money from company. i just got information from my friends who worked for phone company, he told he about this.
the message i mentioned above is that, after getting message i thought that it is good news for all Cambodians. When i forwarded it to my friends, i was charged because i had no free message.
I think that it is the way that companies try to make profit from its users.