davyboy

At £1.50 a minute I dont think so !

MarkO

I've been getting a few of these recently. It's a PITA.

Register your mobile number with the Telephone Preference Service and that should cut it down, if not get rid of it altogether. It will take up to 28 days though.

David Lock

Or phone 0800 500212 who deal with premium rate numbers. I had a similar message on a mobile - call 0906 1743800 using a landline. Took ages to get through but guy very helpful. Currently not illegal to leave mesage to ring unless promising something that isn't true. David.

MarkO

If you SMS them back, it'll go nowhere, and will probably cost you a couple of quid. If you phone them, it'll cost you loads. The only other thing you could do is see if you can find out what company owns the premium line, and then complain to BT. But I suspect it'll make ****-all difference.

I just delete them....

EvilKyote

saw a tv prog about this about a month ago, oh that was it, it was on watchdog! Apparently by replying you set yourself up to be bombarded my spam messages!

Turbohot

I had the same 0906 prefix no.texting me today with"URGENT".I was told by my phone co. Tmobile that all nos. with 0906 prefix are premium nos. and are tryhing to sell you this,that or other.So,DELETE THEM! Dont bother answering them.Remember-0906 prefix!

David Lock

Any BT phone directory has a list of 08 - Special Rate and 09 - Premium Rate numbers and, of course number like 0800 and 0808 which are Freefone. D

super_si

lucky for you im not getting any msgs sent at all.

****ing O2 [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Fatman

I received EXACTLY the same text message as stated in the first post, above. This was my first ever spam text message, and it pi$$ed me off. I called my provider, and asked them to take measures to ensure similar messages didn't get delivered in the future. The Customer Services advisor said they're powerless to stop it. Their suggestion was to register with the Telephone Preference Service. However, they did point out that the TPS isn't guaranteed to be effective against text messages.

So, I registered with TPS and also the Mailing Preference Service as well - to get rid of the junk that comes through the letterbox as well.

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

replying does not incurr premium rate txt because the server is not an 0906 no. more often its a 5 digit new style commercial no.
thanks to the above SNetters I have now registered with the TPS and will update you all when the postal info comes....
got really bad on Vodafone/singlepoint, about 3 a week now!!
T*ssers

Andy...

Peanuts

iTrader: (15)

however,
if someone has seriously p*ssed you off,
theres a form on the mail pref. service to ADD a name to the list for mail..........h a ha aha haa ha aha hab aha (evil cackle)

Peanuts....

WISHING

Cheers Bravo .... There sending me the £5000 cash in the post !

I was going to take the holiday but ive lost my passport.
Anyway cheers mate, i owe you a beer sometime !!

JayPSC

Been getting these SMS spam for ages, not funny when they wake you up at 2am [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

MarkO

Jay - simple answer is to either set your phone to silent vibrate, or turn it off when you go to bed.

JayPSC

Cheers Mark, hadn't thought of that
At the time I didn't expect anyone to be texting me at that time of night unless it was important.