Spam Text Messaging???URRRRRRG
 

So now we are subjected to spam via text messaging? Just great! Isn't there anything private any more. Got my first 10 today. THANKS VERIZON!

10? Today?! I think I have maybe got that many the whole time I have had a cell which is like 12 years or something...

I know, I didn't seem them until now when I realized I had text messages which I rarely use. Oh man, I should have waited to delete them and posted them here. One was obviously some sex thing just by the url they sent with it.


Oh

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Oh I still have one left.. favecute.com... yup it's a sex thing. viagra... ... blah blah blah

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I guess our governments Op-out system isn't working to well eh?

10 in one day seems extreme.
I think I've maybe had 5 total, and those where from offers I signed up for.

ps.. I've never called that "opt-out" number for any of our phones... I personally think that's a bunch of BS, but that's just me..:p

Vodafone does this crap as well...
I only keep it cuz i've got domains rented with them...

same..

get a sms spam/commercial once a year or so, and then again its only
from my tele provider saying they got a better offor or something.
no "external" spam :):up:

quite happy about it

I don't think I have gotten any. Unless you count those useless chain messages. :D

I haven't gotten anymore today, so maybe my turn is over with? I dunno

I want to hire one of those services, at the moment seem to be to expensive

Is your cellphone number on the National Do Not Call list?

https://www.donotcall.gov/

If it is and has been more than 31 days then you can lodge a complaint, even if its your own cellphone company sending the messages. I have had all my phone numbers, even my skype-in number, on the list for years. I never receive telemarketing calls and have never received an unsolicited text message. During elections I receive sequential dialing messages from political campaigns but they are often considered charitable organizations and exempt from the do not call list.

Yes all my numbers have been on that list since it came out. I wonder if a complaint would even do anything?

It sucks that employees withing huge companies are selling the clients lists to scammers.
I almost fell for it exactly 7 days after i got my last cell phone with a subscription to Vodafone. Some dude called me and told me that i won 10 thousand Euros in their contest. Thing is, that there really was a contest, and i asked for some details about the operator and he said Thanks and hung up.
He wanted me to purchase a 100 Euros re-chargable card and give him the info... i was like SAY WHAT!!!??

anyone knows of one of those services? TXT Messages' Marketing? Wayne?

I've never received any spam via text message. :confused:

And I thought that you didn't need to put cell numbers on the Do Not Call list. My wife and I have never put our cell numbers on it and haven't ever received any calls from telemarketers on our cells.

Our home phone, on the other hand, gets loads of calls from something that comes up as "Unknown Caller" on the caller ID. If you answer it, there's nobody there. Whenever they call now, we just don't answer the phone.

I got my first the day you posted this thread... LOL

I changed my cell number about 6 months ago so I guess I should go register it on the no call list...

You didn't used to but now they have the "Number Freedom" laws which allow you to intermingle land line, voip and cell phone based numbers. Because of this I could transfer my home phone to a AT&T based cellphone or vice versa if I wanted to. Even though AT&T doesn't have the lease on the prefix my home number uses. Or I could transfer it to any other company like Vonage or Time Warner from Verizon. Anyway, because of these laws, they have relaxed the rules on what numbers the telemarketers can call.