I've been getting text spam on my new cell phone!
Either that or there's some hot young thing in town who really does want to meet me. Supposedly I know her. Or him. All I have to do is go to her/his website to find out.
How is this possible? How do I stop it? And who can I blame?
Back off, Mannion -- she's mine.
Posted by: Mike Schilling | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 11:58 AM
For the last two weeks I have had one chat spam every single day on Skype, which has usually not had this sort of thing (although I do get the occasional fake MS update notice), all from "different" people using the same wording and trying to direct me to the same website. Although I'm of course used to lots of this in e-mail, I am disproportionately affronted that it's happening on Skype.
Posted by: Avedon | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Isn't that illegal? Since you are charged for the text?
Posted by: Rana | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 01:10 PM
The NYT tech blogger had something about how to block cell spam a while back: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/how-to-block-cellphone-spam/.
I have so far only ever gotten text spam from one number, so I finally texted back "QUIT," and the number was henceforth blocked by Verizon.
Posted by: Rachel | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Hey, I got an obscene phone call on my cell phone last night. How the morons got my number, I don't know--I give the it out very grudgingly.
Posted by: Janelle Dvorak | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 04:53 PM