DSWD WARNS AGAINST 'NOY-NOY AQUINO FOUNDATION' TEXT SCAM

Friday 10th of May 2013
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, May 10 -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development on May 6 warned the public against a new wave of scam text messages claiming they have won hundreds of thousands of pesos from the "President Noy-Noy Aquino Foundation." "We have already issued earlier warnings before but there are really people out to mislead so let us all be vigilant," said DSWD secretary Corazon Soliman. The Department said it learned of the scam after many callers informed its Pantawid Pamilya National Program Monitoring Office (NPMO). It said the text message claims the recipient won P950,000 from the "President Noy-Noy Aquino Foundation 4...
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