Junk text messages?!?

[trekkor]

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

[trekkor]

My wife just got one, too.

Anyone on Verizon getting these?


KT

[Hugh R]

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.

[competentone]

Originally posted by trekkor
Anyone on Verizon getting these?

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!

[legion]

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

[Rick Lee]

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

[stuartj]

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

[trekkor]

Not likely, Stuart.

The advertising world is not that dedicated.



KT

[austin552]

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.

[Noah930]

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.