sent to my fawking cell phone AARRRGGHHHHHHH

WTF how can spam be legal....those stupid fukers!

 

I've been getting them recently as well.

Two spam text messages in the last week, which are the only two I've ever gotten. Both from the same company peddling some weight loss ephedrine shit. It pisses me off. My fiancee got the same one within minutes of me, which makes me think they are just mass-spamming random numbers which have known cell phone prefixes.

 

Who is your cell phone company?
I have T-mobile and never get any.

 

I have gotten like 3 in the year I had Sprint. Last one was last week.

 

I just got my first cell spam last night

fat burner pills at 12:04 AM

 

Spam is where the money is believe it or not. But yes, that shit should be regulated.

 

I have sprint and this is the first time I have got this...same kind as yall some fat burner crap....I HATE SPAM!

 

i have verizon and get like fuckin 15-20 a week ... i swear someone put my number in a list

worst on sat nite sun morning i'll wake up and have 5 or 6

 

a friend has sprint and he gets them often, usually early AM (2-5)

 

sprint here, no spam yet (knock on wood)

 

i would fuckin go nuts cause nextel charges 10 cents a text message if u dont have the package.

 

I got my first spam message last night at 4am. Woke my ass up. I was so out of it, I thought it was time to get up for work (I use my cell phone as my alarm) and started getting ready. Screw this crap!

 

I've only gotten one. (thank god) Oh and I have Verizon.

 

http://www.acura-cl.com/forums/showt...hreadid=132560

 

A few things I probably shouldn't say.... but here ya go.


Sprint has an application called blackhole installed on their SMS system (short mail, the stuff your complaining about). Which filters most of the spam out. Without that you'd be getting hammered with spam.

Recently an employee was caught taking a snapshot of our PCS phone database and selling it. (containing name, subscriber ID (phone number), yadda yadda) Yes, your phone info was sold... lovely eh? (technically he wasn't even caught, his name made a magazine aritcle for spam and someone caught it )

Corporate security didn't care, from what I hear because it wasn't a threat?!?. But the public relations people will definetly have a different say in it.

But you didn't hear any of this from me

EDIT: just wanted to say the app isn't called blackhole for SMS's it's something else (forgot the name, it uses a POSTFIX MTA with a different spam filter). It filters on words directly, one word can kill a SMS.

 

Damn sig...thats interesting stuff.....that you didnt tell me

So that was only the first one...how can I stop it or is there a way?

 

Unfortunetly there isn't much the end-user can do.

 

I wish they hade something like the donotcall.gov to stop all the phone calls trying to sell you crap! Why dont they do that for the damn spamers

 

If you want all this to stop, you know where to go. Your legislators.

 

True that!

 

its called SPIM.... spam on your cell phone.... derived from the IM links u get on aim... name transfered to cell phones.... so it's still called SPIM....

haven't gotten it yet on my phone, but i've heard about it for the first time on the news today

 

never got one before, go cingular

 

i have nextel and just got my first one last week.

 

att
approx 660,000 were sent out to awe customers. it shut down 80 cell sites from central pa to allentown.
i havent heard anymore on it.

some of the switches only receive 600,000 text messages a day and the 660,000 were sent out in 30 min

 

thats pretty phucked up