Both my g/f and I have now gotten several text messages on our cells with sales pitches (i think) and a web address... oh yeah they've been in spanish :confused:

Anyone else getting this kinda crap yet?

Prob won't be long now till we're getting 500 text messages a day:rolleyes:

I heard solicitation through cell phone was illegal. Not sure if this is true or not.

Originally posted by HighToy
I heard solicitation through cell phone was illegal. Not sure if this is true or not.

God, I hope so. That's the last thing I need. :mad:

My husband has gotten a few calls in the past few weeks trying to sell him something...

I get text message spam on my cell phone

search ... we covered this a few weeks ago.. It is illegal if you have to pay for your text messages, also illegal if you are on a minute based plan.

Can you not report that type of stuff? For me to get a text message, I get charged for it, and I'd be getting pretty pissed off if I had to pay for spam messages.

Originally posted by sceep
search ... we covered this a few weeks ago.. It is illegal if you have to pay for your text messages, also illegal if you are on a minute based plan.

Well there you have it. Send the company a bill for your time. I sure as heel would and have before.

Bringing this thread back up, I just got my first text message spam. Since I get charged for each text message I send or recieve, what's the best way to go about reporting this? Call the number in the spam message, or call my phone service?

I can see this shit getting real annoying real quick....

Report it to your carrier. Some fawks have figured out carriers will have the complete range of numbers like 404 310 0000- 404 310 9999. So they set up a computer to spam them all. The last one my company caught in Atlanta was some scam deal from the middle east. Before that it was a south african deal.

Now what may happen in the future is you will walk though the mall and the stores will have low range transmitters by the door and they will spam you with store deals to lure you in with sales. you will be able to opt out.

Originally posted by Grim Reaper
Now what may happen in the future is you will walk though the mall and the stores will have low range transmitters by the door and they will spam you with store deals to lure you in with sales. you will be able to opt out.

so whatever happened to fucking signs in the fucking windows??
Stores that send out spam shit just make me not want to go into thier stores....

Originally posted by animator


so whatever happened to fucking signs in the fucking windows??
Stores that send out spam shit just make me not want to go into thier stores....
Hehe I live 3 miles from a BIG mall and I think I last went in the mall about a year ago. Now I do hit the sears every once in a while but I go in through the door by the tool section and never step foot in the mall.