Loan Company Texts

[pmeswani]

Not an Android

[pmeswani]

I've got the Galaxy S2 and it comes with that function where you can add a number to a blacklist but they have a lot of different numbers that they use.

I got the S2 as well, but I am using Kaspersky AV which prompts me after each text sent from a new sender if I want to block or not.

[alluvial]

I got the S2 as well, but I am using Kaspersky AV which prompts me after each text sent from a new sender if I want to block or not.

Hmm, might be worth having a look, cheers.

[alluvial]

Not phone numbers as I have a PAYG sim card that I give to pimps which is chucked when I find a new gig, but my email address (cv@*****.com) gets all sorts of companies that can only come from people selling the list (this is unsolicited so car insurance etc rather than spam viagra)

Hmmm. Can you think of any scumbags that have your mobile number?

May be a point there. I always kept my personal e-mails separate from work, contracts, shopping etc. and never had any spam of note. Until that is one pratt I used to work with forwarded my personal addy to a load of agents. Now inundated on that address and I've had to turn on spam filtering. More than likely the same thing has happened with my mobile number.

Worst spam I'm getting at the moment is from some twunts called adverpages that seems able to evade the spam traps at times.

[Fandango]

I get these all the time

Check with your phone provider as they generally have a txt number you can forward the spam txt onto. I think they use this to then identify sim cards sending these messages and get them blocked

I'm on O2 and txt number is 7726 (i think its the same for orange as well)

SPAM and unwanted subscription texts - O2

HTH

[cojak]

Anyone else getting bombarded with texts offering cheap payday loans or purporting to have approved a loan application they've received?

Getting really irritating now, I'm getting several of these every day and I would like to know what scumbag gave these parasites my mobile number.

No, but then I don't give out my number to every Tom, Dick or Harry who asks for it.

May be a point there. I always kept my personal e-mails separate from work, contracts, shopping etc. and never had any spam of note. Until that is one pratt I used to work with forwarded my personal addy to a load of agents. Now inundated on that address and I've had to turn on spam filtering. More than likely the same thing has happened with my mobile number.

Worst spam I'm getting at the moment is from some twunts called adverpages that seems able to evade the spam traps at times.

But that's a bummer, and what's done is done.

There is one joker who subscribes to the IT Board who emails me offering very dubious money laundering type jobs every time I upload my CV there.