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I could have been P100,000 richer, that is what I was told by the text message I recieved from Globe. The message said I could be the winner of the P100,000 prize for the week, but I still need to text their number - 2346

Now, anyone who knows Globe’s scheming ways knows that once you texted 2346, you will activate a subscription from anything that they are offering, and from then on you’ll be receiving text alerts wherein you will be charged P2.50 each!

I really don’t understand why do they want us to text that number when they could just say if we won outright. Why do they have to trick us into texting a number that would automatically send us text alerts even if it was not our intention?

And once you get that 2346 activated, it is difficult to get it deactivated. Not even with an OFF option that you’ll send to the same (as what the text message you’ll receive will tell you). Even if you text OFF, you will still receive text alerts and you will always be charged P2.50 each time.

So what do you do? Call customer service 211 to have it deactivated by them. But be prepared for a long discussion — that is if you’re lucky enough to get through in your first attempt.

Here’s another one, a text message that says I got 10 FREE text! Wow! Isn’t that swell?! FREE TEXT, but wait, that’s not all there is to it. The message say, I can get my 10 free text if I buy P75 worth of load for my phone! That’s just great! I need to spend P75 just to get that 10 free text!

By they way, more often than not, my cell phone does not have a load — nada! zero! zilch! Why? Because everytime I load my phone, my credits ‘miraculously’ disappear! Just like what I said in a previous post about the dangers of autoloading, my cell phone credits are being ’stolen’ until now! That’s why I never put credits in my phone anymore, unless it is really necessary.

Now, here is where I qualify my post. If anyone believes that 2346 doesn’t cause you to ’subscribe’ to any of Globe’s service, or if anybody has really won from those text sent by Globe, do tell me, and I will gladly note it on this post… correct myself, if necessary.

But in the meantime, what I wrote all based on previous - personal and first-hand, experience.

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