Fight Mobile Spam!
November 20, 2005
Every once in a while, I get an annoying interruption from my phone. An SMS would popup on the screen and read something like, “Get the latest ringtones, pictures, and daily clips for just 150 fils! Reply with G”. Sound familiar? Well I’ve been getting a lot of that recently:
“Want to read your funny horoscope? Reply with H and have a laugh.”
These persistent messages always try to lure me into their pathetic money-making business schemes:
“Mercedes Benz is waiting for you at Marina Mall! Send R to..”
Ugh! I’ve just about had it with those annoying spammers! Do they expect me to sit and delete these SMS’ every 30 minutes?
“Play Aladdin to win a Mini Cooper…”
Obviously, I had to do something about it because it’s just getting absurd and I’m not tolerating it. So called MTC and ask if there was a way to put and end to all those adverts and, to my delight, there was!
“We’ll inform our technicians and it’ll take around 9 days before the adverts stop.”, said the agent. And that’s all it took! No more annoyances! Goodbye ridiculous, anonymous, commercials! From now on I’ll only receive legitimate SMS on my phone.
Do yourself a favor and fight spam by calling 107 and get your mobile spam-free at no extra cost.
Entry Filed under: Tips & HowTos. Tags: Kuwait, mobile, mtc, phone, sms, spam, stop spam, telecommunication, zain.
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7tenths | November 23, 2005 at 7:41 pm
Thank God! Those msgs pissed me off! Every time I get a msg I hum “Somebody loves me!” & 90% of the time nobody loves me, they just want my money! Will call as soon as I get a self esteem boost, now where can I get some Redbull? .. Thanks :)
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Jacqui | November 23, 2005 at 11:31 pm
Although it’s great and the spam messages do annoy the hell out of me ;p but the only good thing is that when I’m feeling lonely with no SMSes I have those to fall back on ;p
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3baid | November 24, 2005 at 11:48 am
Mother Courage, I will next time.
Misguided, even if you win, chances are very slim that you’ll get a car ;P
So Blue, Glad I could help :D
Jazz Central, they should send you confirmation. Maybe they forgot?
Jan6a, When I called, they didn’t ask my for my ID or anything so I think you can do it without any lengthy procedures.
7tenths, I know the feeling! But now you’ll know that if you got a message someone DOES love you ;P
Jackie, I’d rather get no messages than think I got them from someone and end up disappointed. :/
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q8Sultana | November 24, 2005 at 7:22 pm
Good for you, and now for us :o)
I htink most people (including myself) are also annoyed, but too lazy to actually call the phone company :o)
But now you figured it all out for us lazy ones :o)
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q8ty-dr | November 28, 2005 at 1:45 pm
thanks for telling us that their is actually a service to stop these annoying msg comming … must call them as soon as back to q8 ensallah for this service
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Q80-Chill Girl | November 30, 2005 at 10:08 pm
well done @@ am going to follow ur foot steps :D will do it tomorrow morning