Spam texts from a vodafone number/account - vodafone rep??!

BettySpaghetti_2

wantmemoney wrote: »

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Calls.aspx/077

If you read the whocallsme reports the name that keeps cropping up is a company called Leadx
http://www.leadx.com/

They buy and sell marketing 'leads' of personal information of people who are looking for loans or insurance. They obtain many of them from the major price comparison sites on the net!!

They are also involved with accident claims. I don't know if these messages are connected to them.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awhocallsme.com+whocallsme%22Our+records+indicate+u+maybe+entitled+to%22&btnG=Search&meta=

here's interesting
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/07797802727

damn pests!

Thanks for that - very interesting!
Did you have that number already or where did that come from? I googled the number that called me (07786892320) but it didn't come up with anything.

wantmemoney

BettySpaghetti wrote:

Did you have that number already or where did that come from? I googled the number that called me (07786892320) but........

no i found it looking through this
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Calls.aspx/077
This is what I believe is happening. Somebody is spamming phone numbers with messages like... "our records show you may be entitled to £5,000 for a recent accident" or "would you like your debt....." or something about a loan.......depending on what kind of marketing list they are trying to create.

If anybody replies to these messages they will take all your personal details and sell them on.

I mentioned Leadx because they buy and sell these lists.
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKVAT/2008/V20904.html

It also appear they are involved in selling lists generated in a similar way that you people are describing.
http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/finance-vertical-forum/84194-debt-management-real-time-calls-web-generated-leads.html

Re: Debt Management Real Time Calls & Web Generated Leads

04-08-08
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We do hot key transfers, however, they are unfiltered, we offer them at a quarter of the price of the filtered leads. Usually generated via SMS..

Yes they are DM/Unsecured leads, not applications.

The leads are generated from a site specifically engineered around debt help and Lending, not failed consolidation loan applications (I know the pain felt ring loan apps, I worked in DM for 8 years via GregPenn and Chiltern!), so they are the real deal.

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Paul. Originally Posted by pauls72

BettySpaghetti_2

wantmemoney wrote: »

This is what I believe is happening. Somebody is spamming phone numbers with messages like... "our records show you may be entitled to £5,000 for a recent accident" or "would you like your debt....." or something about a loan.......depending on what kind of marketing list they are trying to create.

If anybody replies to these messages they will take all your personal details and sell them on.

Ah hah - got you now! thanks :j

OwenTuz

I called Ofcom regarding an identical text message, and was told that it's not currently illegal to send these spam texts.

They have taken the number but they can't do anything unless this is costing me money (for instance, if the texts come from a premium number).

This is the second one of these I have received; I texted STOP to the first one and deleted it when I didn't see anything unusual on my bill.

I also called LeadX, as their name keeps coming up in relation to this, but they said they did not have my number. The guy on the phone claimed that they only pass on numbers received from sources such as insurance comparison sites - I'm willing to believe him, as I haven't really seen what the connection is to LeadX specifically.

There is a massive list of similar numbers here (someone has already been and linked to this site).

(Edited, I can't post links. Site is at:

the-scream[dot]co[dot]uk/forums/t29313[dot]html )

The number that texted me was 07933560324.

Hope that helps!

Sunshine12

I got same thing this morning about paying off debts from 07797802727. Going to phone vodaphone.