Please help-nuisance text

kaja86

Hi Everyone
My Aunty keeps getting texts every few minutes on her mobile. The title says 200 but the text says nothing.......Also, on the screen just below the O2 title a phone number appears and it changes each time she is somewhere different.
Can you help her? She has a Samsung D900. On O2.
Thanks. It's driving her mad as she has had hundreds and she is worried that it may be costing her when she looks at them.

uk_messer

Probably best to speak to the airtime provider. Could just be a scam to get you to phone the number.

JAYMARSH2005

kaja86 wrote: »

Hi Everyone
My Aunty keeps getting texts every few minutes on her mobile. The title says 200 but the text says nothing.......Also, on the screen just below the O2 title a phone number appears and it changes each time she is somewhere different.
Can you help her? She has a Samsung D900. On O2.
Thanks. It's driving her mad as she has had hundreds and she is worried that it may be costing her when she looks at them.

If you scroll down through the message is there a 5 digit number anywhere at the bottom of the text, I know you said they are blank but the sending number is usually 5 digits and if we have that code then we can find out who is sending them, also the numbers under the O2 logo will be the area code she is in at the time, I didnt know O2 did this as I know vodafone have this feature.

kaja86

JAYMARSH2005 wrote: »

If you scroll down through the message is there a 5 digit number anywhere at the bottom of the text, I know you said they are blank but the sending number is usually 5 digits and if we have that code then we can find out who is sending them, also the numbers under the O2 logo will be the area code she is in at the time, I didnt know O2 did this as I know vodafone have this feature.

Yes there was a 5 digit code. I'll ring her and find out what is was.
We noticed it was the area code but didn't know why it was doing this all of a sudden and thought it might have some connection with the texts.
Thanks for the help

Mobile_Mole

kaja86 wrote: »

My Aunty keeps getting texts every few minutes on her mobile. The title says 200 but the text says nothing.......Also, on the screen just below the O2 title a phone number appears and it changes each time she is somewhere different.

Sounds like you have cell broadcast switched on. O2 use channel 200 to broadcast area code information. This will probably appear as 'New CB(200)' and will display the local area codes when you read the cell broadcast.

This will not cost anything to receive or read. You can turn it off by going to:

Menu > Messages > Broadcast messages

kaja86

Oh
That sounds plausible. I'm trying to get in touch with her now.I'll tell you if that works.

kaja86

Thanks it worked!!!! Brilliant.
I knew someone on here would help