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Spammed on my cellphone!

Imagine this. Its a peek of what is to come. We could end up paying to have these jerks spam us.

This is a text message I recieved this afternoon.

FROM: REFINANCE@yahoo.com

Call (888)263-2702

100% financing available even with bad credit.

I called the number from a land line, got a long message and chose to speak to a rep. The answering system asked to take my number and they would call back. Needless to say I left a nasty anonymous message without my number. I couldn't make out the name of the company.

I called Sprint and made them aware of this and the service rep siad that they take this very seriously.

 

 

Posted: Apr 22 2004, 07:43 PM by Paul Speranza | with 4 comment(s)

Comments

Jerry Pisk said:

You do know that when you call a toll-free number your caller id will be sent even if you chose to block it, don't you?
# April 22, 2004 8:25 PM

Paul Speranza said:

Yup.
# April 22, 2004 9:04 PM

Walt Ritscher - Thinking about Code said:

Yeah, it happened to me about two months ago. I read somewhere recently that the cell phone companies are trying to figure out how to stop it quick. Tey know that consumers are going to go ballistic if have to pay for spam messages.
# April 23, 2004 12:36 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

Well, there are laws that make sending unsolicited faxes illegal, because the target incures a cost with that message. Those laws can be easily applied to SMS messages, since those are paid as well. The problem is with e-mail, since there is no direct per-email charge to the end user.

Btw it works for unsolicited phone calls as well, just tell them they called you on a cell phone (even if they didn't) and you're off their list, exactly because of the fact that you incur a direct cost because of their unsolicited call.
# April 26, 2004 1:26 PM
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