Text Scam In The Philippines

Scams is not new to us. There are lot of scamming and swindling incidents nowadays, even here in the Philippines. Sometime we may hear or watch in newscast some claims that  they are scammed by someone they recently know. To avoid scam, simply do not trust anyone and never talk to strangers. That's the simplest way to avoid getting scammed.

Now I am writing this since just this morning I received another scam text message. I think several times already that  I receive such message. The Message Goes Like This .
        
          "KUMUSTA NA KAYO, ITO NA NGA PALA BAGO KONG ROAMING NUMBER NA BLOCK NA KASI YUNG DATI KONG GINAGAMIT NA NUMBER DITO NA KAYO MAGTEXT. MISS KO NA KAYO LAHAT DYAN. INGAT PALAGI. TEXT BACK."

To those who are not well versed with tagalog language and to those who are not Filipino I am going to explain what this message all about. The sender here is trying to convince the receiver that he is their relative which is working abroad. If you are convinced by him then the next thing you will know is you have been scammed.

Have you received a message like this? Well for me yup several time already. To find our what is his motive,  I was pretending at first that I was convinced by him and then interact with him. To my surprise he was asking for me to load his mobile number since Philippine load  of roaming mobile numbers in foreign land is expensive, especially in Middle East that is according to him(he was pretending that their cargo was docked in ports of Middle East at that Time). After that my last reply to him was "Are you Kidding? Scam Your GrandFather! Lols" He did not reply after that.

Just in case you receive a message like this, be aware or else you will be scammed. A friend of mine was a victim of the same strategy, she was able to send mobile loads to the sender who pretended to be her uncle. She just discover it when the scammer no longer ask for load, but money instead. She reported it to her aunt, the wife of his uncle and they called him right after.

101 List of Selected Crusing Love Songs

Do you like to listen cruising love songs? I got a complete list of love songs that I'm sure you'd love to hear. Actually this is just a list, I could not provide any download link but you can just download this songs somewhere. You might be wondering that this songs are of different genre, I would like to reiterate that this is just my selection and its the way how I categorize music. If there are some titles here that you are not familiar with, you can just search it in youtube.com, I'm sure you gonna find some matches.

1. The Past
2. Eversince the World Began
3. Nothing Gonna Stop Us Now
4. Till Death Do Us Part
5. Right Here Waiting
6. Heaven
7. Skyline Pigeon
8. After All
9. Victims of Love
10. Someone Who Believes in You
11. Open Arms
12. Ocean Deep
13. Love is Love
14. Nothing Gonna Change My Love For You
15. If Ever You're In My Arms Again
16. Somebody
17. I Can't Find This Feeling
18. Almost Paradise
19. Everything I Do, I Do It For You
20. Said I Love You But I Lied
21. First Love, Never Dies
22. I Can't Let Go
23. Some Hearts Are Diamonds
24. Meet Me Halfway
25. Missing You
26. Stuck On You
27. Against All Odds
28. You And I
29. Words
30. Calling Your Name
31. Alone
32. No Arms Can Ever Hold You
33. Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
34. Can't Cry Hard Enough
35. Someones
36. You're All I Need
37. Straight From The Heart
38. The Time Alone with You
39. I Live My Life For You
40. In My Dreams
41. Think of Laura
42. I'll Be Over You
43. Total Eclipse of the Heart
44. Making Love Out of Nothing At All
45. Half Crazy
46. Do You Remember
47. Beauty And Madness
48. The Search Is Over
49. Love Will Keep Us Alive
50. Island In the Streams
51. Even The Nights Are Better
52. Just For A Moment
53. Just Tell Me You Love Me
54. Never Thought
55. I Can't Find The Words To Say Goodbye
56. Always
57. Inspector Mills
58. I'll Never Get Enough
59. Run To Me
60. Hello
61. Knife
62. Cherish
63. Forever Young
64. If You're Here By My Side
65. All This Time
66. Eternal Flame
67. Take Me Now
68. Another Day In Paradise
69. It Must Have Been In Love
70. Lady In Red
71. Nikita
72. One Friend
73. Spending Time
74. I Miss You
75. I Can't Tell You Why
76. Lover's Moon
77. The One That I Love
78. The One That You Love
79. Wild Flowers
80. When I'm Gone
81. I Just Called To Say I Love You
82. It's A Heartache
83. Evening Star
84. Someone Like You
85. Help
86. Just As I am
87. Just Another Woman
88. In The Moonlight
89. Same Auld Lang Syne
90. We Don't Have To Say The Word
91. You're The Inspiration
92. Leaving Yesterday Behind
93. Love Somebody
94. Why Do We Hurt The One We Love
95. Without You
96. Careless Whisper
97. Sacrifice
98. It Might Be You
99. All My Life
100. When I'm Gone
101.You Don't Know Me By Now

Linking with EON and Paypal Problem

Recently I applied for EON Debit Card at UNIONBANK, and my purpose was to use it to link to paypal to withdraw my paypal funds. So I filled up the application form online, from unionbankph.com and then proceed to the bank the day after. I was able to get the ATM card on that date and the personnel told me that after a couple of days it would be activated and available for use, so I waited for two business days before I enroll it to paypal. To verify the debit card, paypal will charge a small amount from the card (don't worry it will be refunded) and there will be a corresponding verification code that can be seen on the statement of account of my debit card. My problem started when I enrolled my debit card in union online banking. Well, I just enroll in online banking since as what I have heard it is the most convenient way for me to know the verification code or else I have to wait for their letter that contains the verification code and most probably it will take a month before reaching us. I succeeded in signing up but after I could not login to my account the error is just invalid card number or user id.

 

I called up their costumer for me to know what's going on and what's wrong. Anyway for those who have no idea about their costumer care number it is just located at the back of the EON Card, lower right portion. And I was able to talk with their costumer care representative and she gave me the verification code, but she advice me to go back to the branch since there is still a discrepancy with my account.That time the funds that I transferred from paypal to my debit card did not reach to my account too, which worried me a lot. I tried paying something online using paypal too but error says " we were not able to verify your credit/debit card". I wonder about that error knowing that my paypal status is verified already.

I went back to the branch to check what is the real problem. The personnel explained to me that those card numbers/account numbers are generated already. That it is not the same with their old processing that takes a week before we can have our debit cards. It could be release a day after but somehow it needs to be tagged first to your name. In my case, it was submitted but was not tagged to my name which means that is just an account number and I did not own it yet. That's the reason also why the funds that  I transferred from my paypal did not reflect in my account. Anyway I'm no longer worried about it since they give me an assurance that it will reflect in my account after five to seven days.

Just a little tip if you are applying for an EON Card.You must use one email in online application and enrolling to online banking, every details must coincide also. The sixteen digit numbers above your name is your card number, the twelve digits below your name is your account number.The CVV or card verification value is the 3 digit number visible at the back of your card.

Apply EON Debit Card here http://unionbankph.com

My Life Story

I was born in a family who has nothing at all. My mother is just a mere housewife who takes good care of us. And my father used to work as a private guard when I was a kid. But early in my childhood years, if I'm not mistaken,  I was just in third grade at that time when he quit working. He was confident that his savings was enough for our needs that even if he will not work again we could still live. I could remember that we had two tricycle(mode of transportation here in Philippines) that was operated by my two uncles, a piggery a number of goats and cows pastured.But there's nothing permanent in this world and what we had was lost as time passed by.
At my young age, I already experienced working in the farm, under the sun or even during rainy days. We have a parcel of land and part of it is our sugarcane plantation and cornfield in which we can harvest corn good for a year. Rather than paying others for the labor of cleaning and planting our farm we often did it with our own and save the money for other purpose.
With my hard and difficult experience in life I became strong and determined to succeed and have a better life. Thus, I can survive whatever trials come. And I know that it wouldn't be hard anymore, because I've had experience the worst circumstances.
The first thing I did was to do well in school. I was always an aspiring student from primary to secondary school. I was not the best but I was at the top five always. The real challenging part of my life was during my college years. My older brother was in college at that time and I had to stop schooling. My brother was just taking a one year course or vocational course and then after I could go back to school.Rather than stopping, I decided to be a self supporting student. The first thing I did was to apply as a working student in my school. Luckily I was accepted. My first job was janitorial that lasted for a year. I'm my second year I became a laboratory assistant, my function was to maintain the computer facilities. I learned troubleshooting skills on my first year level. In fact for my school allowance I did home service computer repairs. And later in my senior year I maintained an internet cafe which was additional income for me. But it is not that easy.Our house is in a remote area and it is  two kilometers away from the main road going to the town.I have to ride in a motorcycle before reaching the main road. Sometimes I am hitching a ride with my neighbor who has a motorcycle and is working in town. I don't mind doing it daily since I have a vision to succeed in life. I am sure that those steps would slowly take me to success. And yes, at last my persistence was paid off when  I graduated from college. For me, it's a milestone, a single step for my future and the fruit of my hardwork and sacrifices.
Now I am working as a tech support of a financial institution here in Philippines. And I am helping my two siblings with their college education, it is a responsibility that is left by my father when he die since my older brother has no permanent job and have his family already.That is what my life is all about. And where I am now is not the end of my career, this is just the beginning and I am still finding ways on how to bring out the best in me.

A very funny Globe Advertisement shared over Social Network

I was fooled by this advertisement. This was shared to my fb wall by my friend and I thought that it was a serious one. I was carried away by the emotions of the story, little did I know that it was just promoting a telco services.Here it goes.



"A VERY SHOCKING STORY... NAKAKAKILABOT TALAGA... HINDI TO CHAIN ...MESSAGE O KAHIT ANONG CHORVA...

This is a story from University of the Philippines (Diliman) about a young college girl who passed away last month. Her name was Tiffany. She was hit by a dump truck. She had a boyfriend named Joel . Both of them were true lovers. They always hung on the phone.. You could never see her without her cell phone.

In fact she also changed her network coverage from Smart to Globe, so both of them can be on the same network, and save on the cost and get good network coverage. She spends half of the day talking/texting with Joel. Tiffany's family knew about their relationship. Joel was very close with Tiffany's family. (Just imagine their love). Before she passed away she always told her friends "If I pass Away please bury me with my hand phone" she also said the same thing to her parents.

After her death, people couldn't carry her coffin, I was there. A lot of them tried to do so but still couldn't, everybody including me, had tried to carry the coffin, the result is still the same. Eventually, they called a Feng Shui Master. He took a stick and started speaking to himself slowly.

After a few minutes, he said "THIS GIRL MISSES SOMETHING HERE". Then her friends told the Master about her intentions to bury her with her phone. He then opened the coffin and placed her phone and SIM card inside the casket. After that they tried to carry the coffin. It could be moved and they carried it into the van easily. All of us were shocked.

Tiffany's parents did not inform Joel that Tiffany had passed away. After 2 weeks Joel called Tiffany's mom and said,

"I'm coming home today. Cook something nice po, ha? Don't tell Tiffany that I'm coming home today, I wanna surprise her.

"Her mother replied... "You come home first, I wanna tell you something very important."

After he came, they told him the truth about Tiffany . Joel thought that they were playing a fool.. He was laughing and said "don't try to fool me - tell Tiffany to come out, I have a gift for her. Please stop this nonsense".

Then they showed him her grave. Joel said, "It's not true. We spoke yesterday. She still calls me." Joel was shaking.

Suddenly, his phone rang. "See.. this is from Tiffany, see this..." he showed the phone to Tiffany's family.

All of them told him to answer. He talked using the loudspeaker mode. All of them heard their conversation. Loud and clear, no cross lines, no humming. It was the actual voice of Tiffany & there was no way others could use her SIM card since it was nailed inside the coffin. They were so shocked and asked for the Feng Shui Master's help again.

The Master brought his co-masters to solve this matter. He & his co-masters worked for 5 hours. Then they discovered one thing...


GLOBE HAS THE BEST COVERAGE, WHEREVER YOU GO, THEIR NETWORK FOLLOWS...

ANG LAKAS TALAGA NG GLOBE. KAHIT NASAAN KA MAN. KAHIT NASA PURGATORYO KA PA.

KAYA GLOBE NA KAYO NANG KAYO AY NAKAKASIGURADONG MALAYO ANG MARARATING NINYO".

Power of Positive Thinking Or Simply Luck

I have an experience last Christmas that is worth remembering especially now that Christmas Day is fast approaching.It was a memorable happening to me that I could not really explain. I will just make it short, here it is.We are celebrating our Company's Christmas Party at that time. It was held in a multi-purpose function venue since our office could not accommodate us all, I mean there is a limited space there and we are that many. Upon arrival we have to register our names in the front desk for attendance and there was corresponding number for each attendee, sorted based on arrival time. I could remember my corresponding number at that time is 217 which means I am 217th person who arrived. By the way the company that I am working in is a financial institution which caters pawning. remittances and bills payment, not to mention the name but it is one of the biggest pawnshop chain here in our place. At that time there was a raffle for employees, there was minor gifts which was just a grocery pack, then a grocery pack + noche buena pack and the major awards which includes a cellphone, a sack of rice, a flat screen tv, a refrigerator, a digicam and three laptops with different models and price range. I was sitting in a table with my four workmates, each of them recieved gifts, mostly the grocery pack, or the grocery + noche buena pack. One of us was called two times, he was called for grocery pack and a for digicam, but we are only allowed to take one so he choose to retain the digicam. Now this is what happen, each one of them had each gift already, I was thinking deep from my subconscious mind that I must have a gift also, that time they are picking up numbers to be called for noche buena pack. I told the one who is beside me and the one who is in front of me that the next number that would be called would be my number and I showed it to them. And Yes! it was! we are all shock, they could not believe that I am called for that gift. I was surprised also, anyway I did not say that its really the mind power that make it happen, it could be a simple coincidence also and I was just lucky.

Commonly Used Gay Lingo/ Gay Language

I just wonder how gay lingo or gay language evolve nowadays. Usage of this language is widely used not only by gays but also real men and girls. I am not familiar with the usage and maybe that's the reason why I  got curious of the real meaning of words/terminology used.It is not easy to figure out what each word really means thats why I have decided to list here some of the popular terms they have been using and some that I am familiar with.


Tagalog Terms

RAMPAGE        - rampa
TOM JONES    - gutom na
LUGARLIZATION    - para manoy(kung bababa sa jeep)
NINA RICHIE ALAGAO     - rich
JULANESE MORISETTE     - ulan
ANIK/ANETCH     - ano (what) /which
BALAJ     - balahura(shameless)
BITTER OCAMPO     - malungkot(sad)/nagngingitngit(fuming mad)/bitter
BAKLAH/BAKLUSH     - used instead of one’s name, may refer to any gender
GIVENCY/JANNO GIBBS/DEBBIE GIBSON    - bigay(to give)
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT/ANDA/ANDALUCIA/ANJU/ANJO YLLANA     -datung(money)
FATALE    - sobra (excessive)/to the max
FEEL/FILLET o’ FISH     - type/gusto/natipuhan(like)
FLY     - alis(leave)
FOREVER     - palagi(always)/matagal/mabagal(slow)
PAGODA COLD WAVE LOTION     - pagod(tired)
WASHINGTON/WISHING/WISH     - wala(nothing or none)
CHANDA ROMERO     - tiyan(tummy)
MAHALIA JACKSON     - mahal(expensive)
KUYA GERMS     - madumi(dirty)/bearer of germs
LUCRESIA KASILAG     - lukaret/baliw(crazy)
LUCITA SORIANO     - loser na sorry pa
LUZ VALDES    - matalo (to lose)
WINNIE SANTOS     - manalo (to win)
AWARD     - pinagalitan/pinagsabihan(reprimanded)
FREESTYLE     - slow makagets(to understand)/slow
IMBEY/IM     - imbyerna(irritation)
JOWA/JOWABELLES/JOWABELLA     - karelasyon/BF or GF
KAPE/CAPUCCINO/COFFEEMATE     - magising ka sa katotohanan(be realistic)
LUPITA KASHIWAHARA  - malupit(cruel)
RITA GOMEZ     - nakaka-irita(irritating personality)
ENTER THE DRAGON/ENTOURAGE     - pasok(to enter)/come in
JULIE ANDREW/JOLINA MAGDANGAL     - mahuli(caught in the act)
ANTIBIOTIC    - antipatika(bitch)
48 YEARS/50 GOLDEN YEARS/10,000     - matagal(after a long time)
CRAYOLA  - iyak (to cry)
THUNDERCATS/CHANDELIERS/MASYONDA  -  matanda(old people)
WRANGLER     - gurang(also means old)
JUBIS/JUBA     - taba(fat)
JUTAY/JUTES     - maliit(small)
KANGKANG     - ***
REYNA ELENA     - ulan(to rain)
X-MEN     - dating lalaki(formerly a man)now gay
MORAYTA/MURRIAH CARREY     - mura(cheap)
PAMINGTANG DUROG/PAMENTHOLS    - Closet gays/acting as men
BACKSTREET BOYS         - cute boys at the back
CHIMINEY CRICKET     - chimay(maid)
GOODBYE SUKLAY         - goodbye
FAYATOLLAH KUMENIS     - payat(skinny)
ANACONDA     - ahas(a snake)/traitor
ANONG PETSA NA?     - asked when someone is taking too long to dress up, etc.
CHARING/TIENES     - just a joke/not serious
KAPLANG     - mali(error)/mistake
BARBARA STREISAND/BARBARA PEREZ         - bara/binara(bluntly rejected)
REGAL DRAMA HOUR/MAALALA MO KAYA     - when someone tells a sob story
_______, IKAW BA YAN?   - when someone acts like another person, maybe a showbiz personality or not. (example: Vilma Santos, Ikaw Ba yan?)
PURITA KALAW     - walang pera(broke)/ mahirap(poor)
RICA PERALEJO     - mayaman(rich, from the Spanish word rica)
CHOVA/CHOVALINE KYLE     - chika lang(small talk)
COOKIE CHUA/COOKIE MONSTER     - magluto(to cook)
CLASMARURUT/KLASMARURUT     - classmate
CYNTHIA LUSTER     - hindi kilalang babae o lalake(unknown she or he)
DAOT     - insulto (insult)
EKSENA/EKSENADORA     - mahilig pumapel/sumabat(someone who always likes to figure in a scene)
EMOTE     - mag-inarte(one who is over-acting)
KARIR/CAREER     - sineryoso ang isang bagay like BF or work(to be seriously involved)
LAFANG     - kain(eat)
LAPEL     - malakas ang boses (someone with a loud voice)
CARRY/KERI/CASH & CARRY     - sige(OK or alright)
CATHY DENNIS    - “makati”(frisky) or promiscuous
CHAR/CHAROT/CHARING/CHARBOILED     - not ok
LIBERTY/STATUE OF LIBERTY     - libre(free)
OKRAY     - paninirang puri(criticize)
LUCKY HOME PARTNER     - Live-in partner
IN FAIRNERSS     - pampalubag loob(to console)
COMPARED TO LUGAW    - kesa wala(better than nothing)




Visayan Terms

WIZ KO KNOWING    - wala ko kabalo
TOPAS OKS    - sapot ko
GASH ABLEGASH     - my gosh
NAGWARLA ANG TALIV    - nag yawyaw ang babae
wiz PA NA NOTARIZE ANG CHIKA    - wala pa na confirm ang chismis
HELLO KITTY    - makahilo
SUSAN    - totoy nga maabot sa pusod
SUZETTE    - gamayg totoy
GOTCH SA OKAM KE AW PA OKS TUGPA - tog sa ko
ERF AND WOSH - getting something free
ISKWERDA NA OKS - moadto nako

Unlike tagalogs who frequently used words or names with the same sound with the exact word, some visayans would just simply reverse the exact word to hide its real meaning but of course if you got the clue that it was just reversed it would be easy to decipher or figure out. Below are the samples.

UTAD    - datu
KISNI    - insik
ASNIk AYIS    - kinsa siya
TOYAB    - bayot
SHUDI ABAS     - ayaw saba
GOLTI    - itlog(male genitals)
KOLI/KOLIFLOWER/CAULIFLOWER    - ilok(armpits)
NAWAWI OKA     - nauwaw ko
YOYOT     - bayot
YAMAG    - gamay
OKAD    - dako
IMAL    - lami
ITAB    - bati
BAHU    - uhab