Technology QotW: Cell Phone Spam

May 16, 2008 at 7:46 AM
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Spammers have started sending unwanted messages not only to your inbox, but to your cellphone. Tell us: Have you received this potentially costly form of spam yet?

I haven't had to deal with this issue yet - but I also do not give out my number to many people. I'm sure the people getting hit with this are the idiots that sign up for those ringtones and backgrounds for their mobile phone through the internet or on TV. You're an idiot if you do that - you deserve to pay for it.

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I get 2-4 spam messages a week on my cellphone, and I have never downloaded anything on my cellphone, or signed up for any such nonsense. I've never even sent a text message. I started receiving the spam from the first week I got my cellphone. It is expensive and annoying and there is nothing I can do about it except wait for my contract to expire so I can change providers.

maura_ea replied to little miao’s comment:
May 16, 2008
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Oh my gosh! That sucks! What's strange is - like you said - it happened as soon as you got your new one. Have you asked to have your number changed with your provider? If you never send text messages - why doesn't your provider just turn off that feature?

Bookishly Fabulous replied to little miao’s comment:
May 16, 2008
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I bet the person before you with that number gave it out. I just got a new number since I moved, and I had to call a few debt collection agencies and tell them that whoever they are after changed their number. Luckily, I've only gotten one junk text.

maura_ea replied to Bookishly Fabulous’ comment:
May 19, 2008
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Ugh, that would frustrate me so much - I'd have no patience with debt collectors.

little miao replied to maura_ea’s comment:
May 19, 2008
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At first, I thought that all cellphone users got spam, so I didn't do anything about it. By the time I wanted to do something about it, I was planning to move and I didn't want to change my number. Now the plan expires in September, and I plan to use a different cellphone provider entirely.

Technology QotW: Cell Phone Spam

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