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What's this?
Paul Evans
20-05-2007
Just got a message to my phone around twenty minutes ago. The subject was simply "Hi there! " and it originated from +27829129.

The rest of the message looked like a suspicious web link, part of it I've reproduced below:

http://w03.v739.net/app/dispatch/ (I've removed the file or page reference)

Whois hasn't come up with anything other than the domain being registered (no details).

Has anyone else seen anything similar? Is it just spam or something more sinister? (A link to a virus or something?)

I'm on Vodafone.
selene
31-05-2007
Probably spam...
slick_tick1
02-06-2007
Originally Posted by Paul Evans:
“Just got a message to my phone around twenty minutes ago. The subject was simply "Hi there! " and it originated from +27829129.

The rest of the message looked like a suspicious web link, part of it I've reproduced below:

http://w03.v739.net/app/dispatch/ (I've removed the file or page reference)

Whois hasn't come up with anything other than the domain being registered (no details).

Has anyone else seen anything similar? Is it just spam or something more sinister? (A link to a virus or something?)

I'm on Vodafone.”

hi there, i got the same thing, and its some annomoyuos website??? i got it twice? is some one hacking into our mobiles?
Paul Evans
02-06-2007
There's another thread about it here:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=578965

It looks like a link that reverse-charges you for clicking on it. I didn't try out the link via my phone, but via Firefox using a WAP plug-in, and it linked to an expired page.

It sounds like the page only exists for a couple of hours after the spam texts are sent out.
Finglonga
02-06-2007
Why do people worry about these types of text messages? Just delete them if they are not expected or there not from someone in your phone book.
BugPowderDust
04-06-2007
I got the same (on O2, what about you guys?). Also get "Push Messages" quite a lot. Just delete anything that looks spammy.
sam24
04-06-2007
Yeh, i got it on t-mobile the other day. It made the sound as if my w88oi battery was low warning, but it came through as some odd type of message. Anyone yet have any ideas where they got our numbers from or from who these texts actually originate?!
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