Unwanted sex texts
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My wife is getting pretty crude text messages from 89149
we are worried about texting stop to this number as it might charge us the premium rate or worse deluge us with more texts
Any advice or info is greatly appreciated thanks
we are worried about texting stop to this number as it might charge us the premium rate or worse deluge us with more texts
Any advice or info is greatly appreciated thanks
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/watchdog/reports/consumer/consumer_20060221.shtml
what my wife has been doing is voting on x factor that sort of thing I think i'll complain to ICSTIS too
Why cant the mobile phone operators do more. Could they not send a warning text along the lines of.. We have received an incoming premium text from xyz. Accepting this will cost £1.50 for each text received from this number. Do you want to allow texts from this number? Y/N
If you reply Y then that number is allowed to text you, if you reply N it is perminantly blocked. Simpe enough given the amount of people getting ripped off.
YES ..............
over 95% of the time these are requested by the phone user.
there is a universal shortcode of STOP which all premier sms providers use to cancel the service so just txt the number that it comes from with the word STOP it will cost you the standard price of a txt outside you tariff (12p on o2) and that 'should' be the end of it.
it isn't possible for o2 to stop this service coming to your handset nor is it possible to block one individual number from sending you sms. as soon as its received by the network to your sim then you are charged whether you read it or not.
hope this info is of some use, bear in mind the above info relates to o2 i dont know about other networks but i presume they are the same if not similar.
The likes of OPERA should be forced to ask for permission to use your number in the return text as now happens on web registrations, so that you would have to text back to them to give permission...
There's an idea, how do i suggest this to ICSTIS ?
**EDIT**
Don't click on that link it's meant to be an example and it's come up as a link