My Battle With Text Messaging Spam
Jan 21st, 2008 | By Kevin | Category: How To, news, personalAfter setting up the account at Textmark today, I received a couple messages from them, and then got hit with a spam message again tonight. Tonight, the message wasn’t from Man999.com, but from another site with the typical spam filter jiberish at the bottom of the message.
After some searching, I found other people around the world receiving the same basic message within the last three hours. Probably the work of some Russian/Turkish/Romanian hackers. If you are Russian, Turkish, or Romanian, don’t be offended, I just have a history with being hacked over the years, and they have been from these three countries.
I spent some time on the TMobile.com site tonight figuring out how everything works up there and found out how to change my cellphone’s email address. They allow you to change your email from ##########@tmobile.net to whateveryouwant@tmobile.net. Hopefully, the problem is from a harvested phone number, and this resolves the problem for now. That is unless they have compromised the TMobile database, and have access to my new email address.
The troubles of a connected world…
Kevin
Originally from Wisconsin, I moved out to Salt Lake City over ten years ago on a six month software development contract. I now have over 15 years in software development, and was introduced to internet marketing back in 2003. During the wild west days, our business focused on content sites for Adsense revenue. As it became harder and harder to keep up with the search engines, our business has evolved, and forced us to focus on building lists and creating products. We now have a list of about 5000 interested in goal setting, and a small internet marketing list of about 500.
Changing the email didn’t work, I received another one tonight, looks like I’ll have to talk to TMobile to see how to stop this nonsense. GRRRRRRRR!