Arghhh I got this message at 3.30am this morning. What a crock of s**t, but like everybody else it creeps me out thinking about how they got my number given that I have only recently obtained this cellphone number. Is this a world wide scam or what??? Im in New Zealand.
I got a text from this number at 7am this morning. I note that the +234 prefix is the international calling code for Nigeria - our old friends are at it again.
DO NOT REPLY to this text message - from what I've read it seems it might be a premium text message service and you'll end up paying a high rate for the reply and any subsequent texts these weasels send to you.
Obvious scam and stupid to reply to. Like Wozza stated, it is most likely a premium text message service that will charge you for replying, so you are funding them for their scam if you reply anyway.
I'm in New Zealand and notice someone else stated they were too, so state what country you are from.
Being alarmed over how they got your number shouldn't be a concern, they will just be sending to random phone numbers with a random generator.
It's not like they have people sending the texts personally, it will be a simple program, coded to send the text to random numbers that are generated.
I got the same thing (I'm in NZ) - nobody would give money away with a simple SMS so it is clearly a scam of some sort, usually the most innocent things you might do can mean you lose $$$ so ignore it!