Text message spam should be illegal

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: LoKe
You're on the wrong plan if you're paying per text message.

I would NEVER EVER pay a monthly fee for texting. It uses such a tiny amount of bandwidth, it has no formatting, and it has a useless message length. They'll let you make a voice call for free but you have to pay extra to send 500 bytes of non-time-sensitive data? Screw the whole concept.

I'll stick to the unlimited email, instant messaging, internet, Gmail, Google Maps, tethering, etc on my Blackberry. If you're going to pay for data, at least pay for DATA.

And yeah, I've gotten text spam, and it pisses me off, too. It's actually worse than fax spam, since it costs more.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: LoKe
You're on the wrong plan if you're paying per text message.

actually there is a new scam that they send you a text and unless you reply to it you are subscribed to a service for $X.XX per month.

BS if you ask me. They nailed a couple people at the office on this.

 

[Minjin]

I've only ever gotten one spam and a quick call to cingular got my 15 cents refunded and the sender added to their blocked list. I see it just like email spam. You should report every piece instead of just deleting it so that it can be better filtered out in the future.

 

[Pepsei]

what's your phone number again?

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Minjin
I've only ever gotten one spam and a quick call to cingular got my 15 cents refunded and the sender added to their blocked list. I see it just like email spam. You should report every piece instead of just deleting it so that it can be better filtered out in the future.

Who do you call for email spam?

 

[Minjin]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Minjin
I've only ever gotten one spam and a quick call to cingular got my 15 cents refunded and the sender added to their blocked list. I see it just like email spam. You should report every piece instead of just deleting it so that it can be better filtered out in the future.

Who do you call for email spam?

You click on the link that says Report Spam. Many people just delete it.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Minjin
You click on the link that says Report Spam. Many people just delete it.

Completely useless "feature" on sites like Hotmail. I've reported every single spam message that makes it to my inbox and I'll still get very similar if not exact messages in the future.

 

[trOver]

I don't have free txting, and I have just recently gotten spammed

Who should I call?

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Minjin

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Minjin
I've only ever gotten one spam and a quick call to cingular got my 15 cents refunded and the sender added to their blocked list. I see it just like email spam. You should report every piece instead of just deleting it so that it can be better filtered out in the future.

Who do you call for email spam?

You click on the link that says Report Spam. Many people just delete it.

that link is not part of an email, maybe your provider does something differently...

still more often than not there is no way to effectively follow it back to someone that will do something.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: LoKe
You're on the wrong plan if you're paying per text message.

actually there is a new scam that they send you a text and unless you reply to it you are subscribed to a service for $X.XX per month.

BS if you ask me. They nailed a couple people at the office on this.

They did that to my wife a couple months ago. She has no clue how to text, so it sat on her phone for weeks. It was not until I got the next bill that I put it together. (The phone company reversed the charge, but told me there was no way for them to perma-ban such activities).

That should be punishable by death.


BTW, even if you do not pay per text, do you really have no problem receiving text spam?

Is nothing sacred? Our mail boxes, faxes, e-mails and now our mobile phones. What freaking idiots buys things they learn of through spam, anyway? They should be punished, too.

MotionMan

 

[Injury]

I thought there was a list, similar to the Do not call list, that prohibited text spam that wasn't from your provider (free)... maybe I'm wrong and I've just been lucky.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: LoKe
You're on the wrong plan if you're paying per text message.

actually there is a new scam that they send you a text and unless you reply to it you are subscribed to a service for $X.XX per month.

BS if you ask me. They nailed a couple people at the office on this.

They did that to my wife a couple months ago. She has no clue how to text, so it sat on her phone for weeks. It was not until I got the next bill that I put it together. (The phone company reversed the charge, but told me there was no way for them to perma-ban such activities).

That should be punishable by death.


BTW, even if you do not pay per text, do you really have no problem receiving text spam?

Is nothing sacred? Our mail boxes, faxes, e-mails and now our mobile phones. What freaking idiots buys things they learn of through spam, anyway? They should be punished, too.

MotionMan

Don't get me wrong spam sucks. The funny part is many don't know the extent of the problem. My email address goes back to 199x, I have another that dated back even earlier. Most of my mail is spam...however; with network tools what I see is minor.

My provider runs a tool which then goes through a Barracuda on another server and then my own email has heuristic/database tools.

If you look at our server logs here it's like 70% or more spam. That's a lot of wasted resources and a definite monetary cost. However; most of these originate from countries which it's not illegal/not enforcible or through exploiting a mail server. It ends up cheaper to deal with it than fight it.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: MotF Bane

Originally posted by: BoomerD
This crap is why I have texting disabled on my phone...EVERY time I turn texting on, I get 5-10 per week, all advertising some kind of garbage or website, with a return number of 000-000-0000. Every one cost me a dime. YES, unless you have a texting package, you pay for incoming and outgoing texts.
Fuckin spammers.

How did you disable it completely?

Just called Cingular and asked them to disable texting...simple as that.

You can even ask them to disable internet and MMS as well. The term is "pay per use" I think. Tell them to remove SMS pay per use and put on "Admin Msg Only", which is the code for only AT&T administrative text messages, like when you text them for minutes and bills, etc.