Simplicity
Explorer
I have a pay-as-you-go phone from Cingular. And every now and then, BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP. In come the spam text messages. Receiving each of these spam messages costs me 5 cents. Plus, I get a $1 charge because I "used" my phone today. To receive spam.
Spam has cost me a total of $1.50 today.
These messages don't try to sell me anything. They contain only random english poetry-like text (to avoid the spam filters), and that's it (at least that's all my craptastic phone can/will display... not that I care).
I don't want text messaging. I don't text people. I don't even want the ability to receive text messages. I've called up Cingular and asked them to turn off this "feature". They "can't" (and why would they want to, really?). Apparently, if I want to stop receiving spam, I must either respond to the texter with a "stop" SMS message... which will cost me 5 cents to send. And I have to hope they pay attention to it, rather than say, "Oh look, this address is alive!" Or I have to contact the ISP of the originating email address.
Thank god I have a pay-as-you-go-phone. At least I have an upper limit to how much money I can lose to spam this way. It would be pretty easy to bomb someone and make them lose a whole lot of money this way...
GRRRRRR!!! I hate crap like this!
Spam has cost me a total of $1.50 today.
These messages don't try to sell me anything. They contain only random english poetry-like text (to avoid the spam filters), and that's it (at least that's all my craptastic phone can/will display... not that I care).
I don't want text messaging. I don't text people. I don't even want the ability to receive text messages. I've called up Cingular and asked them to turn off this "feature". They "can't" (and why would they want to, really?). Apparently, if I want to stop receiving spam, I must either respond to the texter with a "stop" SMS message... which will cost me 5 cents to send. And I have to hope they pay attention to it, rather than say, "Oh look, this address is alive!" Or I have to contact the ISP of the originating email address.
Thank god I have a pay-as-you-go-phone. At least I have an upper limit to how much money I can lose to spam this way. It would be pretty easy to bomb someone and make them lose a whole lot of money this way...
GRRRRRR!!! I hate crap like this!