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Article #136sms spam
From: Mark Anderson
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:10
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:10
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I got another spam sms message today, the last one almost exactly two weeks ago which was the first text spam since I got this phone two years ago. I'm on a prepaid el cheapo plan so getting dinged whatever it is they ding me (i think 6 cents) is troubling and if this increases as spam tends to do it will render my phone useless as spammers will eat away all my prepaid money. The From on the text is some email address -- not a phone number. Do most providers have ways of stopping this? I'm not going to make a federal case over a couple of messages. I'm very careful about giving out that number so not sure how the spammer got it. I suspect two people however, one being my ISP because the first spam came shortly after I gave them my cell as a contact number. Both spams are hawking something from Best Buy but I doubt they're behind this. In the second text they wanted me to enter a 4 digit number so this was more sophisticated than a normal text. My phone is just a simple cell phone that does voice, SMS, and MMS texts and that's it.
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From: Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com>
Newsgroups: chi.internet
Subject: sms spam
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:10:48 -0500
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