Spam in text messaging

A few months ago my wife had a couple of spam messages on her phone, seeing
we have to pay for incoming messages I complained to T-mobile and they gave
us credit. They also said to reply to the message with the word "stop" and
they should take us off their list. The phone replies didn't work for some
reason just came up with an error. I did notify the FTC via spam@uce.gov as
I've been doing with spam received on my computer's email. My wife doesn't
use text messaging so I asked if there was anyway to disable it, they said
no, they needed it to send us account related messages.

Last Friday I had a spam message on my phone and complained again. Again
sending "stop" didn't work. I asked them if they did any spam blocking,
they said I could goto the web site and put in a block by keying in
information from the message. They gave me credit and I notified the FTC.

Received messages used to be free but since they started charging I've been
getting upset. I think we ought to have the option of disabling text
messaging completely or being able to turn it on only when we need it. They
could have better filtering we could enable if we want ie blocking message
sent via the bcc field.

Just wondering what your thoughts were on the subject?

In news:hvprh.50088$wc5.48788@newssvr25.news.prodigy. net,
Patrick Casher <me@privacy.net>spewed forth:
> A few months ago my wife had a couple of spam messages on her phone,
> seeing we have to pay for incoming messages I complained to T-mobile
> and they gave us credit. They also said to reply to the message with
> the word "stop" and they should take us off their list. The phone
> replies didn't work for some reason just came up with an error. I
> did notify the FTC via spam@uce.gov as I've been doing with spam
> received on my computer's email. My wife doesn't use text messaging
> so I asked if there was anyway to disable it, they said no, they
> needed it to send us account related messages.
> Last Friday I had a spam message on my phone and complained again. Again
> sending "stop" didn't work. I asked them if they did any spam
> blocking, they said I could goto the web site and put in a block by
> keying in information from the message. They gave me credit and I
> notified the FTC.
> Received messages used to be free but since they started charging
> I've been getting upset. I think we ought to have the option of
> disabling text messaging completely or being able to turn it on only
> when we need it. They could have better filtering we could enable if
> we want ie blocking message sent via the bcc field.
>
> Just wondering what your thoughts were on the subject?

I had the same problem, except I raised a bit more hell with them.
I got the same response about blocking them and he said that there was alot
of parents that felt the same way.
Think how much money they make from people that don't look at their bill or
the time to dispute the charge.
He did tell me that he would credit my account for 25 free txt messages.
Funny thing is, I haven't had another since. Coincidence?

"ChairMan" <why4@fu.com> wrote in message
news:foFrh.3812$E35.2948@trnddc02...
> Think how much money they make from people that don't look at their bill
> or the time to dispute the charge.
> He did tell me that he would credit my account for 25 free txt messages.
> Funny thing is, I haven't had another since. Coincidence?
>
I haven't seen anymore on our phones since either. I think I will post here
any future spam I get to see how many are getting the same message. This was
the last message:

Sent:
Jan 14, 2007
12:34

cpptp@aol.com
/oneself /all
prescriptions
discounted:
www.censusship.com

----1441612494
188482--

"Patrick Casher" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:f3Krh.62410$qO4.38846@newssvr13.news.prodigy. net...
>
> "ChairMan" <why4@fu.com> wrote in message
> news:foFrh.3812$E35.2948@trnddc02...
> > Think how much money they make from people that don't look at their bill
> > or the time to dispute the charge.
> > He did tell me that he would credit my account for 25 free txt messages.
> > Funny thing is, I haven't had another since. Coincidence?
> >
> I haven't seen anymore on our phones since either. I think I will post
here
> any future spam I get to see how many are getting the same message. This
was
> the last message:
>
> Sent:
> Jan 14, 2007
> 12:34
>
> cpptp@aol.com
> /oneself /all
> prescriptions
> discounted:
> www.censusship.com
>
> ----1441612494
> 188482--
>
>
Twice I have received a recorded message for mortgage loans. It comes once
a month. I will post the number the next time I receive it along with any
other pertinent information.

"Newby" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:12qv2dormk1ocaf@corp.supernews.com...
> Twice I have received a recorded message for mortgage loans. It comes
> once
> a month. I will post the number the next time I receive it along with any
> other pertinent information.
>
Maybe you should register your cell number with the National Do Not Call
Registry https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx if your getting voice type
recordings. I registered both our cell phones as well as our land line
phone.

In news:5xMrh.2376$O02.62@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net,
Patrick Casher <me@privacy.net>spewed forth:
> "Newby" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:12qv2dormk1ocaf@corp.supernews.com...
>> Twice I have received a recorded message for mortgage loans. It
>> comes once
>> a month. I will post the number the next time I receive it along
>> with any other pertinent information.
>>
> Maybe you should register your cell number with the National Do Not
> Call Registry https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx if your getting
> voice type recordings. I registered both our cell phones as well as
> our land line phone.

I'm not sure if that covers txt messages, though. Probably some loophole.

In message <5xMrh.2376$O02.62@newssvr11.news.prodigy.net> "Patrick
Casher" <me@privacy.net> wrote:

>
>"Newby" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
>news:12qv2dormk1ocaf@corp.supernews.com...
>> Twice I have received a recorded message for mortgage loans. It comes
>> once
>> a month. I will post the number the next time I receive it along with any
>> other pertinent information.
>>
>Maybe you should register your cell number with the National Do Not Call
>Registry https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx if your getting voice type
>recordings. I registered both our cell phones as well as our land line
>phone.

Unnecessary, there are already laws against telemarketing to cell
phones.

Worse, there are people who grab the do-not-call list and use it as a
dialing list (usually calling from outside the country, or an exempted
group), so you may actually get more calls by getting a cell phone
listed.

--
If a job is worth doing, then get someone in to do it properly.

"DevilsPGD" <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote in message
> Unnecessary, there are already laws against telemarketing to cell
> phones.
>
> Worse, there are people who grab the do-not-call list and use it as a
> dialing list (usually calling from outside the country, or an exempted
> group), so you may actually get more calls by getting a cell phone
> listed.
>
I registered our cellphones in 5/2005 and have yet to receive a
telemarketing call. Where are the laws documented and where can we report
abuse?

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:25:46 GMT, DevilsPGD
<spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote:

SNIP


>Worse, there are people who grab the do-not-call list and use it as a
>dialing list (usually calling from outside the country, or an exempted
>group), so you may actually get more calls by getting a cell phone
>listed.

I have never received an unsolicited sales call on a cell phone.
Either before the Do-Not-Call list or since and I have registered all
of my phones on it. My personal experience with that list is
outstanding.

Now if the government would make themselves and their damn political
calls subject to the law also I would be even happier!

I use text messaging by having a program (Identafone) that forwards the
caller ID of anyone that calls the house to my cellphone via e-mail from my
PC. I found it wasn't working after complaining about the Spam problem I
called support and we went to the My-Tmobile.com website and checked the
filters they applied for the spam and found there is an option to block all
e-mail sent to the phone and it was set. Reset it and now Identafone works
again.