SMS scams are so frequent – but when they come from the “SAPS” one might jump to unfortunate conclusions.
Check out this video of a tantrum that went on for about 90 minutes before worried onlookers called the paramedics.
In what many will claim is a victory for free speech a massive Constitutional Court ruling has gone the way of the DA. Next up…pay back the money!
Over the past week, a few very frenzied e-toll users have been complaining about SANRAL sending them SMSs which claim that they owe them money.
Some people go a little nuts for branded competitions – but this is straying into cry-for-help territory. An unemployed woman in the Eastern Cape was so keen on winning a new Citroen C1 that she sent text messages pretty much all day and all night, spending around R28,000 in airtime, which could justifiably buy a decent 2nd hand car – but the taste of winning was too sweet.
Have you ever broken up with someone via SMS? Shame on you. If you have, you can count yourself lucky you didn’t do it 26-year-old Quin Woodward Pu, or this might’ve happened to you.
We published an article on Friday, denouncing ADT for using ‘unknown numbers’ and not sending an SMS when customers’ alarms go off. Instead of implementing basic social comms, they sent this:
The laws on texting and driving are constantly improving but still the tragedies that are happening are too high. Perhaps these adverts will make you think twice the next time you text and drive.
There is something quite harrowing about this photo of a kid’s cellphone, showing the conversation he was having via text, as well as the unfinished text he was writing before he crashed his car and died. Click through to see.
If you are one of those douchebags (or know such a douchebag) who text while driving, then you need to check out this video. Potential drivers in Belgium were told they had to pass a “mobile phone test” in order to get their driver’s licenses. See how they did, inside.