no re-charge for YSR promotion

An SMS for `promotion of YSR Foundation’ is doing rounds on mobile phones in the city.

The SMS, which claims to be seeking promotion of the website, www.YSRfoundation.com, wants the recipient of the message to forward it to 16 friends with the promise that he or she would get a recharge of Rs 221.55. At the end of the message, there is an affirmation that it has worked with `me’ (the one who forwards the message) and ``why don’t you do that?’’ Heightening the credibility levels, the SMS claims that the offer is from YS Jagan.

But those who trusted the contents of the message and forwarded it to 16 friends ended up with depletion of money in their accounts for the SMSes sent and in spite of waiting for hours and days, there was no re-charge of their accoutns as promised.

Imli Nichet, a student from Nagaland, who has nothing to do with the ongoing election campaign, has forwarded the message religiously only to find that he was befooled. ``I got it from lot of friends and they too don’t know the origin of the string of messages,’’ he said.

When many of them got in touch with their respective network’s customer care, they simply sported their ignorance about the message and even added that they were not responsible for whatever loss incurred by the customer. And the best, or worst, part is yet to come. Finally when one tries to log into the website www.YSRfoundation.com, they would only find that the portal does not exist.
Source http://www.expressbuzz.com/