August 27th, 2007 Rusty
My recent post about T-Mobile SMS Spam has another chapter. I followed the advice of the sweet, but not very smart, T-Mobile rep that I spoke to yesterday and text messaged the spammer. I asked them to “please stop, wrong number”. As expected, I started receiving messages with dramaticly increased frequency.
Working out the numbers, it was looking to cost me at least $20 / mo to be spammed, all that money going to T-Mobile. So I called again today. The customer service rep was much more helpful. He was very friendly, as always.
He explained that my spam from a 6 digit number was from an IM account. He instructed me to send a text message with the command:
?d[username]@[emailaddress]
the messages were from 406002. I was to send a text message to 406000.
So, let’s say the address was jackass@gmail.com from 406002
I sent a text message to 406000 with the text:
?djackass@gmail.com
So far, no more messages… but it’s only be a few minutes. I will comment as the week progresses.
Why on earth is this not incredibly available information?