THE Department of Social Welfare and Development 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.
It said the text message claims the recipient won P950,000 from the “President Noy-Noy Aquino Foundation 4Ps Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program.”
The recipients were then asked to text their “complete name, age, address, work.”
The DSWD emphasizes that this is not true because the department does not hold raffle promos or draws.
It urged recipients to report the text to the nearest DSWD office or text to the Pantawid Pamilya Grievance text hotline (0918) 9122813.