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Article #137Re: sms spam
From: Matt Ferrari
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:46
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:46
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"Mark Anderson" <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote in message news:MPG.2b307c4b18f869af989a02@news.speakeasy.net... >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. did ya win the 1000 dollar best buy gift card? i won that too. DELETE
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Subject: Re: sms spam
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:46:59 -0600
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