Stop Spam Texts Discussion Area

molerat

Have been getting a couple a week from Ladbrokes. I have never used their sites and rarely give my mobile number to any company. Reported them to ICO anyway.

Vegeta_ble

I've been getting a few this last week. It's very annoying. Most of them say to text END to 88860 to opt out; this doesn't work. I've tried STOP and STOP ALL as well. A lot of them don't come from a number but a company name. Most of them are to do with loans. I'm very annoyed with this; I wish Orange could just block all texts containing the string " 88860" with a space at the start so as not to block it if it's part of a valid number.

I've forwarded the last few to 7726 followed by the number / company name in the message header, but they're still coming.

Donna_Jameson

My elderly mother has been pestered over the past few months by text messages claiming she had a frozen pension and also Ppi to reclaim, my husband and i registered her number with text preference services that we found on google and so far so good, :j

johnhall11

The company responsible for these messages is (currently) Clarity Leeds Ltd

They claim to abide by the law and have admitted to me they used "guerilla tactics" previously, however they are still flouting the law.

I traced spam SMS messages back to Barry Sanders about a year ago.
Again, recently, I traced back spam SMS and found it led to the same Barry Sanders. Two totally independent spam messages lead back to that one scammer.

DIRECTOR:
HORNER-GLISTER, ANDREW IAN MR
Appointed:
01/10/2012
Nationality:
BRITISH
No. of Appointments:
7
Address:
4 NEW ROAD
YEADON
LEEDS
UNITED KINGDOM
LS19 7DA


DIRECTOR:
SANDERS, BARRY MR

Appointed:
16/05/2013
Date of Birth: 26/12/1964
Nationality:
BRITISH

No. of Appointments:
1
UNIT 3 FRIENDS SCHOOL
LOW GREEN, RAWDON
LEEDS
ENGLAND
LS196HB

planetf1

I've just received one today from "PDKong" - of course no number shows.

I forwarded to "spam" (on three), which then asks me to provide number. I can't, just the name. When I do this the spam id tells me to reply "stop all" to the original, which can't work either

Anyone suggest how to report/block/stop on three? (I have done on the phone app itself [mysms on android])

xpi0t0s

From the article: "Spammers do it because they are getting responses. They can sell these details on to debt management or claims firms. They get paid big cash for these 'leads'. If nobody replied, there would be no data for them to sell, making what they do pointless."

OK, so as they ignore TPS, and they use disposable numbers (so blocking them doesn't work), and simply ignoring the messages doesn't work (I still get spammed if I simply delete the messages), what about fighting back another way?

Reply to the message; they get their cash, and the company who paid for your number calls you, whereupon you simply say you're not interested. If enough of us do this then the value of the leads will drop and the exercise will become pointless. Obviously there's a sucker born every minute and there will always be a supply of new businesses who get hoodwinked by the spammers into buying a poisoned database but this should still impact the spammers - or at least their idiot customers, and maybe the idiots will start demanding refunds from their "data providers" for selling them useless leads.

And my response to "Mobile Professional" is to ensure your TPS download is kept up to date. If I've ignored their advice that they allow spam to mobiles and still registered my number then I expect any company that wants a business relationship with me to take that into account and find some other way of advertising their junk.

Cloudane

It bothers me particularly that PPI spammers are 1000x worse than the people who missold PPI in the first place...

However the one who's spammed me one too many times today is OPTICAL EXPRESS.
I don't know if it's the real Optical Express, would a big high street name be dumb enough to spam? (I've never dealt with them and never had any reason to opt in to their texts). Edit: Apparently they are. http://blog.cloudmark.com/2012/08/06/optical-express-sms-spam/

Well they've been spamming me for months and I've now put up for it for the last time. I always untick marketing boxes, so IF they somehow have such a thing to back it, it'll have been something that I've been tricked into leaving ticked, which is still unacceptable. Enjoy the attention from the ICO and the 7726 reporting service, OE. You'll never get any custom from me, I'd sooner go blind.

Donna_Jameson

Just an update regarding the service i signed my mother up to regarding her texts. It been nearly a year and to be honest I think she has received possibly 3 or 4 since signing up. She used to get on average 4 per day so its definatley done its job. textpreferenceservices. co.uk This may well be an answer :money:

grumbler

Donna_Jameson wrote: »

Just an update regarding the service i signed my mother up to regarding her texts. It been nearly a year and to be honest I think she has received possibly 3 or 4 since signing up. She used to get on average 4 per day so its definatley done its job. textpreferenceservices. co.uk This may well be an answer

I smell SPAM and SCAM

Re 'definately' see my signature...

chrisjuk12

Hey p*%$ed off people!


Ok, so have been receiving spam text messages for months now which was most likely my fault for getting a pay day loan and agreeing to their T's & C's. After replying stop to quite a few I found that doing this was probably making matters worse.


After reading the guidelines to prevent this kind of trash I decided to ignore them and delete them upon arrival and this seemed to be doing the trick apart from a few die hard S.O.B's that do not seem to want to let go. I have now gone down from about 30 a day to about 5 a day, which is good but it's not the holy grail of 0 a day. One thing I have noticed however is that the same number keeps popping up... 88860! Usually the end of these messages says something along the lines of "text stop", STOP, UNSUB etc. to 88860 to unsubscribe which after checking dated messages I have done this..... a lot! and they are not the same web addresses on each BS message meaning this is either horse poo and is just to prove your number is live or some central marketing company. Either way, someone must be running it.


My question is does anybody know either who this company is or where I can find a real contact number for them so that I can call them, find out where they live and !!!!!! in their cereal!


Only joking on the finding them bit... I think?


I would like to find out what this company does, whether it is responsible for the dross I get sent or whether they are some central marketing company who advise other to unsubscribe certain phone numbers or whether they are just some foreign/overseas bottom feeding, scum sucking, algae eaters that cannot be contacted for love nor money (yes I know this is most likely) and that I am just wasting my time trying to legitimately stop the pestering I am receiving.


Any help or experiences could really help as I would love to post their details so that if they are a turd smear on the smiling face of humanity we can turn the tides and spam them right the f£*% back.


Thanks guys.


Chris


Oh and just to mention, yes, I am signed up to the TPS and have been for about 2 years. Sadly doesn't work with A-holes