Airtel Warns Against SMS Scam In India

Airtel just issued a warning on their website, which is alerting users from a sms scam running around in the networks.

Here is the warning message from Airtel:

“Unsolicited fraudulent SMS’s are being sent to various subscribers informing them that they have won a prize and need to call an international number to collect their prize. When calls are made to the number in the text message the subscribers are billed a high amount (upto Rs 500 per minute).Subscribers are cautioned not to respond to such SMS’s”

So play safe and ignore if you get any such messages.