Junk text messages?!?
 

I just got a "junk text" on my cell phone.

I suppose this is the newest form of unsolicited advertising that *I* have to pay for, right?


If I end up getting them everyday, what can I do?


KT

My wife just got one, too.

Anyone on Verizon getting these?


KT

Not yet. I recently had to change an email address that got taken over. I'd had it for years under my domain name, and started getting 1,000s of email a day including many saying my mail, which I didn't send was undeliverable or blocked by a spam filter.

Yep. But I solved that problem quick by having Verizon turn off text messaging on my phones.

As I see it, text messages are just "stupid." Why should I pay 5 or 10 cents for something that costs Verizon virtually nothing in band width?

Not to mention the "interface" -- I'd have to be crazy desperate to communicate with someone if I had to punch out a message on a phone keyboard -- especially when I can just call.

I guess texting would work well if I was in high school trying to communicate with my friends during class without getting caught, but when I was in high school cell phones were about the size of a cinder block and text messaging hadn't been invented yet!

I've gotten one or two. I raised holy hell with Nextel. They stopped.

I got one today and replied, "F*ck off and die, spammer scum." It bounced back.

How annoying. Imagine getting an unsolicited and unwanted message on your cellphone. Next, they will be knocking on your door.

Not likely, Stuart.

The advertising world is not that dedicated.



KT

Not Junk But...
 

My wife had some guy texting her. asking are you single, lonely, etc. We laughed about it but then they started getting dirty so I called the freak and ended it.

I got a text from some thug that wanted a deal on a half for washing my van. I have no van. Chose not to answer that one.

I had a similar problem last year. Only, because I don't have a plan with free texting, they cost me a quarter per spam. By the end of the month, it added up to about $7. I called Cingulair/AT&T, and they gave me the runaround. Said they weren't collecting it, the company sending me the texts was. I contacted the loser company, who also gave me the runaround and pointed the finger at another company I had never heard of before (I think they were the same company, though). I was told it would be canceled or credited, and that never happened, either. So I wrote a letter to the FCC, documenting all the phone conversations to these companies I had made, and got the four or five months of bogus fees credited back to me. Never had the problem again.