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SuperJudge
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join:2002-11-14
Albany, GA
clubs: | Re: Glad to know I'm not alone... Oh hell yeah, I get a few a day. Some days, I get a few every hour.
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joebear29
join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL | Who is sending the spam? Is it Nextel, or a third party? | |
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join:2003-01-03
| get use to it I posted this is another thread...........
In Japan we get spammed to death and we pay for it one way or another. Either in receiving or in higher monthly charges(Vodaphone is most$$$$ In Japan) they offer free incoming mail up to so many letter. BUT YOU PAY FOR IT In higher monthly and mail cost. Spam is not going to stop on cell phones. Use filters and blockers from your service. Japan users filters are on high most of the time if not all the time. Its not going to go always. get use to it. I am not trying to be mean but realistic | |
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join:2003-01-03
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Facts are world wide spam going through cell phones is growing ever year. "Letting you know?" what in the world are you talking about? They don`t have to tell you this if that's what your referring to. Facts are spamming is growing and there is nothing we can do about it. Otherwise you have lost........... | |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | Re: get use to it The fact that Nextel is spamming it's own customers is the bigger issue. Talking about services they are now offering and charging there customers you are missing the point!! | |
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join:2003-07-20
Alabaster, AL
| Ok, thanks for the info.
Nextel should not charge for the messages they send. Period.
Regarding third parties, it's a difficult question. Nextel has no way of knowing what's spam and what's not. It'd be easy to receive 50 messages, then call Nextel and claim 25 were spam and want a refund.
of course, the real slimes are the ones who send the unsolicited messages. | |
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starreem
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join:2000-12-22
Raleigh, NC
clubs:
| I got spammed..... We recently got spammed on all our Nextel phones about 2 weeks after first seeing a post in the spam forum. It was from "Nexbell". We called to complain, and Nextel said they could sign us up for some "no charge" spam filter, and told us to call when the bill comes to have the SMS charges reversed. If we can only remember to call when the bill comes in......
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starreem
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join:2000-12-22
Raleigh, NC
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| Re: I got spammed..... For those interested... here is the original post in the spam forum that give the info on who is doing the spamming lately
»Nextel phone text spammed
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vic102482
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Upper Marlboro, MD | 15 cents for a text message? But you get 64K of nights and weekend voice streams or incoming calls for free right? | |
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comcasttech0
join:2002-03-06
Edmonton, AB
| Rogers Spams their customers too! The same thing happens to customers with Rogers/A&TT (Canada) but luckily anything you get from Rogers isn't being charged to you as the consumer... Rogers gives you the first 2500 messages received free, after that you pay X amount per message.
Although the pointless SPAM we get from rogers is for pointless prizes you can atleast reply and tell them where to stick it, and hopefully they won't respond back!
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trisomy
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join:2002-05-23
Houston, TX | Re: Huge problem with great potential for abuse Nightfall, do you know whether or not unrequested text messaging to your mobile telephone falls under the DNC "laws" which forbid telesolicitation to mobile numbers? | |
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Jeremy341
Bye
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join:2000-01-06
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| Re: Huge problem with great potential for abuse said by trisomy  :
do you know whether or not unrequested text messaging to your mobile telephone falls under the DNC "laws" which forbid telesolicitation to mobile numbers?
SMS is completely separate. There are no laws forbidding unsolicited SMS. | |
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trisomy
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join:2002-05-23
Houston, TX
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| Re: Huge problem with great potential for abuse said by Jeremy341 :
SMS is completely separate. There are no laws forbidding unsolicited SMS.
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sea93
join:2001-11-01
River Grove, IL | Re: Verizon? I've got Verizon and had Spam on my phone.
It's mostly in Spanish and I can't read it anyway.
If it gets bad, I'll drop the whole service. | |
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TheMadSwede
Premium
join:2001-01-30
Holland, MI | Like sea93, I have had the spanish SPAMs as well. I tried to complain, but forgot about it. Have not received them in awhile.
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | This is messed up. Incoming messages shouldn't be charged to you, especially if there is no way to prevent them from coming to you. If you have a grudge against someone you could just message them up the ass and give them a nice 20-30 in extra bills. | |
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join:2002-08-31
Resolute, NU
| Re: This is messed up. said by insomniac84 :
Incoming messages shouldn't be charged to you, especially if there is no way to prevent them from coming to you. If you have a grudge against someone you could just message them up the ass and give them a nice 20-30 in extra bills.
That happened to one of my friends.. His ex gf kept phoning his cell and hanging up when the "beep" for the voice mail would go.. They sent him a bill for over $300 (they rounded up to 1min for 1sec..) This is pretty low IMO they spam the customers then charge them $$$. Makes me sick. I'm glad I got rid of my cell phone.
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join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | That actually sounds illegal. What ever happened to companies getting in trouble for advertising on cell phones and causing the customer to pay for their unwanted advertisement? Or was it never like this? | |
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Misu
Hey, I Saw That
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join:2000-11-28
Orlando, FL
| Cingular does it too, only they charge $0.20/msg when I first got my new phone from Cingular, I started getting spammed almost a week after. It was getting tons of spam, but I figured I wouldn't get charged for it because I wasn't replying.
Wrong.
Bill came in, and they were charging me $5.00/month to have this feature turned on, and $0.20 per message. The bill was enourmous. I called, they said their hands were tied. So I took my phone and my bill to the Cingular store, requested a manager, showed them my bill, showed them the spam saved in the inbox of my phone, and they deleted all the charges. They also turned that text messaging feature off my phone because I don't use it at all. This was over a year ago.
Hubby has the same phone service, and he didn't have a problem until last week with spam. He only got a couple of messages, though, and I told him to save them because he's going to get charged 20 cents per message, and he'll need the spam on his phone to prove he's getting spammed.
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join:2001-02-02
Washington, IL
| Nextel... I called Nextel about this several weeks ago with the spamming I was receiving from the text messages. I asked the lady why am I having to pay for text messages that are spam and I have no way of blocking it? So then the lady kindly gave me 100 text messages per month for free. Hopefully this doesnt have to continue much longer.
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rideboarder
welcome to the social
Premium
join:2003-07-28
Snohomish, WA
clubs: | Thank god.. Well I'm glad that i don't pay for incoming messages with T-Mobile, I just pay 5 cents a message to send them. So it's all good...
I don't get spam either way, but if I did, it would still be a pain in the ass, even without paying for it. | |
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cyberthugin
join:2002-03-12
Kew Gardens, NY
| Duhhh
I guess this will be the next new spam to come.
But carriers like sprint and co. will def make money off this spam, since it increases their profit margins.
I wouldn't be surprise that they dont have hired spammers sending this stuff on their network.
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join:2003-09-14
Arvada, CO |  AT&T service
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join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
| Re: AT&T service said by FastLearner :
I get spam with my ATT service but they don’t charge for incoming text messages, I don’t see how they could because I don’t have any control if I receive a text message or not.
With AT&T you can turn off text messaging using their online system... I don't know if turning off text messaging disables the ability to receive messages or just to send them.
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bufferoverru
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join:2002-12-10
Ottumwa, IA | uscc Ive got U.S. Cellular and can receive unlimited incoming messages, and 10 Cents to send them, or you can get on a plan like 50 outgoing for 2.95. | |
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join:2003-05-04
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join:2003-10-30
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join:2000-10-23
Skokie, IL | Messages When I talked with Nextel the other day, the rep told me as long as I don't read the text messages and just delete them I won't be billed for them.
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join:2000-11-26
Granite Quarry, NC
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| Re: What about the telemarketers??? **cough** B.S. **cough**
Your right to free speech ends at my front door, or phone, or whatever. I almost believed you until you invoke constitutional guarantees to annoy me.
Anyway, what I did was cancel my voice mail, paging and whateve else my phone had on it that would allow it to talk to someone when I didn't want to. Figure if I don't answer the phone I'm busy and you can call me back. | |
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furlonium
Computer Over? Virus equals Very Yes?
join:2002-05-08
Bethlehem, PA | Re: What about the telemarketers??? seems obvious that dave is making fun of Taurus333..... | |
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linicx
Caveat Emptor
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join:2002-12-03
United State
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| Nextel users are not alone Cingular does the same thing only they charge ten cents a message. That's not all, they turn it on by default. I had to call twice and get ugly before they turned all the "frills and thrills" off. I got the cell for emergency use. I did not get it for voice messaging, text messaging or for idiot advertisers.
Quite frankly I'd like to know how the scumbag telemarketer got the phone number in the first place. It was a new exchange and a new phone number. I didn't have the cell 24-hours when the calls started. When my contract ends, I'm switching to a calling card.
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join:2003-06-16
New York, NY
| i've complained to nextel via phone and mail i've also informed the fcc, the bbb, congressmen, etc.
nextel's upper management is spending a ton of money on marketing (tv, print, billboard, radio, etc.) to keep stockholders happy. they have top pay for all of this so they screw their customers by NOT allowing a TOTAL TEXT MESSAGE BLOCK.
their options are obsurd...
1. cancel text messaging (and lose voice mail)
2. change number (get real...i have hundreds of clients)
3. forward to nextel (excuse me...headers don't come through and i bill for my time...three hundred messages per month or more...is nextel going to pay for my time???)
4. spam filter (ineffective, lame, just another way to buy time while continuing to bill customers for unwanted spam)
5. call for credit (once a month, i spend an hour on the phone with nextel going through the whole procedure again to get credit).
6. switch to another service (and pay nextel a cancellation fee)
this issue will eventually make it's way to the news and nextel will have to answer to it's customers, the public and the justice system. nextel's stockholders will eventually find out who's behind this incompetency and outright robbery.
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