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keep getting texts from dodgy loan company
hi wonder if anyone can help.
ive been getting texts from a company called getaloanfaster.co.uk and in the text it says 'to opt out reply stop' but i keep getting the texts from different numbers each time i reply stop.
have put the website into whois and the address appears to be a residential property on streetview.
is there something else i can do to stop these texts, theyre doing my head in :mad:
cheers
ive been getting texts from a company called getaloanfaster.co.uk and in the text it says 'to opt out reply stop' but i keep getting the texts from different numbers each time i reply stop.
have put the website into whois and the address appears to be a residential property on streetview.
is there something else i can do to stop these texts, theyre doing my head in :mad:
cheers
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put the codes into PayPhonePlus0
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Don't text 'Stop', because then they know it's a valid number.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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put the codes into PayPhonePlus
thanks. put the number in, it can only tell me that its a mobile number, and gave me ofcom's details.
latest number they text me with is 07739319356
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Ah rats, I was expecting a shortcode.
07739 is (or at least used to be) an O2 code, so contact them and let them know someone is using the network for spam.0 -
will do. if i cant do anything about it then they can expect a load of junkmail through their letterbox in the coming weeks 0
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You can complain to the Information Commissioner.
http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/privacy_and_electronic_communications.aspx0
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