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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.

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In article invalid@noSpamORharvest.com says...
> > 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

Mine didn't give a value.  Have you been getting a lot of them?

"Mark Anderson" <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote in message 
news:MPG.2b309cb9e398a03a989a03@news.speakeasy.net...
> In article invalid@noSpamORharvest.com says...
>> > 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
>
> Mine didn't give a value.  Have you been getting a lot of them?
>
>
Just one , said to sign onto some funky website to claim. It was a weird url 
like tcb.3.yt or some gibberish

Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:

>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 objected numerous times to T-Mobile over the years. They finally came up
with blocking. Even so, I'd still get SMS spam occassionally. They can
never explain why. At 20 cents each, which is more than I'd pay in per
minute voice overage charges, it was outrageous.

Still, you've got to admire the pure profit of SMS.

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:50:33 +0000 (UTC), a parrot spilled beer on 
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>'s keyboard, which yielded the 
following:
> Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:


> >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 objected numerous times to T-Mobile over the years. They finally 
came up
> with blocking. Even so, I'd still get SMS spam occassionally. They 
can
> never explain why. At 20 cents each, which is more than I'd pay in 
per
> minute voice overage charges, it was outrageous.


> Still, you've got to admire the pure profit of SMS.

Serious question, I'm not being precociously stupid.

Are you guys talking about chat messages? Because I got about 1 every 
2 days for the first few weeks I had this phone. They were always 
from people like Jenna booty shake or Karen hook up tonight. 
Obviously I blocked all of them but I wouldn't really expect that to 
have much effect on what the piers to be a rotary name selector 
 
 anyway, if SMS equals chat then I got some too.

-- 
1/30, 000, 000 of his body mass is gravitas

max <betatron@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:50:33 +0000 (UTC), a parrot spilled beer on 
>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>'s keyboard, which yielded the following:
>>Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:

>>>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 objected numerous times to T-Mobile over the years. They finally came
>>up with blocking. Even so, I'd still get SMS spam occassionally. They
>>can never explain why. At 20 cents each, which is more than I'd pay in
>>per minute voice overage charges, it was outrageous.

>>Still, you've got to admire the pure profit of SMS.

>Serious question, I'm not being precociously stupid.

>Are you guys talking about chat messages? Because I got about 1 every 
>2 days for the first few weeks I had this phone. They were always 
>from people like Jenna booty shake or Karen hook up tonight. . . . 

I never got anything like that. It was a short version typical of various
email scams.

"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote in
news:ka6odl$ll$3@news.albasani.net: 

> max <betatron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:50:33 +0000 (UTC), a parrot spilled beer on 
>>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>'s keyboard, which yielded the
>>following: 
>>>Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>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 objected numerous times to T-Mobile over the years. They finally
>>>came up with blocking. Even so, I'd still get SMS spam occassionally.
>>>They can never explain why. At 20 cents each, which is more than I'd
>>>pay in per minute voice overage charges, it was outrageous.
> 
>>>Still, you've got to admire the pure profit of SMS.
> 
>>Serious question, I'm not being precociously stupid.
> 
>>Are you guys talking about chat messages? Because I got about 1 every 
>>2 days for the first few weeks I had this phone. They were always 
>>from people like Jenna booty shake or Karen hook up tonight. . . . 
> 
> I never got anything like that. It was a short version typical of
> various email scams.

If you have AT&T you can report the spam and they block the offending 
number. 

copy and paste the message to 7726 and they'll ask you to follow up with 
the offending number. This is AT&T only. 

-- 
Coming to you from the beautiful Chicago suburbs

In article ericw2000@gmail.com says...
> If you have AT&T you can report the spam and they block the offending 
> number. 
> 
> copy and paste the message to 7726 and they'll ask you to follow up with 
> the offending number. This is AT&T only. 

Mine came from an email address.  From my experience with email spam, 
there is no way to create an email black list for spammers.  I'll check 
with my provider if I get one more within the month.  If this stuff does 
come from email it would be trivial for them to block anything from that 
gateway to me. 

Eric <ericw2000@gmail.com> wrote:

>If you have AT&T you can report the spam and they block the offending 
>number. 

>copy and paste the message to 7726 and they'll ask you to follow up with 
>the offending number. This is AT&T only. 

Eric, it's like any other spam. The headers are false. Even if they're
real, they wouldn't use them in future.

On Dec 11, 1:10 am, max <betat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:50:33 +0000 (UTC), a parrot spilled beer on
> "Adam H. Kerman" <a...@chinet.com>'s keyboard, which yielded the
> following:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Mark Anderson <m...@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> > >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 objected numerous times to T-Mobile over the years. They finally
> came up
> > with blocking. Even so, I'd still get SMS spam occassionally. They
> can
> > never explain why. At 20 cents each, which is more than I'd pay in
> per
> > minute voice overage charges, it was outrageous.
> > Still, you've got to admire the pure profit of SMS.
>
> Serious question, I'm not being precociously stupid.
>
> Are you guys talking about chat messages? Because I got about 1 every
> 2 days for the first few weeks I had this phone. They were always
> from people like Jenna booty shake or Karen hook up tonight.

I got similar texts from a mope who appeared to be texting her
girlfriend or potential b-friend. I finally called her number and left
a voicemail telling her that "pops" wasn't interested and maybe she
got the wrong cell number. I left the v-mail using a "jive" voice and
hip-hop language. Fun with Trixie stalkers !