“ቤቶ ቁጭ ብለው FACEBOOK በመጠቀም ብቻ እንዴት ብር ማግኘት እንደሚችሉ ለማወቅ OK ብለው በነፃ ይላኩ” Wait… what?

Sorry for the weird title. But, what in the world are we getting through our phones these days? Is this even possible? Can I make money using Facebook? I almost sent “ok” to this one. To get to the point, how a big corporation like Ethio Telecom can approve a message this solicited and probably a lie be sent to its customers is baffling to me. This article is not going to be all about this specific text, but about the texts that are making our phones buzz without any good reason. To give some background, an SMS shortcode is a 4 or 5 digit phone number that is used by businesses to send and receive text messages at scale.