Comments on: Dealing with SMS Spam

By: Laura Crowe

Laura Crowe — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:13:38 +0000

I got the same message from 57582 “FreeMsg: … Wixawin IQ Service..To unsubscribe txt stop to 57582.” I DEFINITELY DID NOT SUBSCRIBE. I never lend my company phone to anyone. I dont engage in meaningless surveys/games/ringtones rubbish etc. I manage our company mobile phones and actively campaign against this sort of thing. I have a web tool to show all charges on all of our company mobile phones in real time. I logged in and there is NO CHARGE for this text message having been sent to me. I reckon that if I was to respond to this insidious number I would start up a whole lot of text message subscription charges.

Needless to say come Monday I will be speaking with our O2 account manager about this matter. I will also be using the various tools available to me to see whether any other company mobile users were hit with the same thing during the weekend and taking appropriate action if they were.

By: Mia

Mia — Sun, 30 May 2010 17:06:18 +0000

I had to change my phonenumber 2 years ago because of 57582 and seems i have to do it again,I have no idea where from they got my number again on this time

By: 02 customer

02 customer — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:22:38 +0000

I got the same message from 57582 “FreeMsg: … Wixawin IQ Service..To unsubscribe txt stop to 57582.”. Should I send the stop text or will that make things worse? Who exactly receives messages to 57582?

By: meteor customer

meteor customer — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:58:13 +0000

that 57582 got me as well, i just wanted to watch qa tv show and i completed a survey (I was stupid to do it i know) anywat I texted the STOP to their number and now every few minutes I get a text saying

“Free msg: Regarding your opt-out request, you are unsubscribed and will recieve no further messages. No further action needed”

Yeah right you show of b*sta*ds!!

they text me that every few minutes.

By: Frustrated 02 customer

Frustrated 02 customer — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:02:43 +0000

BEWARE….

Even if you contact O2, they still send you messages. I contacted a Supervisor for the 3rd time today and have been re-assured that junk SMS from them will be a thing of the past!

Excellent bit of information on the site about what to do – if they send ONE more little txt of junk to me, I will be following the details you posted.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:29:36 +0000

Nice bit of info there. I received a text this morning saying “FreeMsg: Your PIN 4633. Enter this pin 2 get your result & to join the Wixawin IQ Service. 18+ only. To unsubscribe txt stop to 57582. €6/week. Info:wixawin.co”.
I never subscribed to any service like this and believe it to be a complete scam. I found contact info for the company in question at http://wixawin.com/ir/contact.html and emailed them at info.ir@wixawin.com demanding that they remove me from their database and demanding to know where they got my number from.
I then contacted comreg to complain and they put me in contact with regtel. I also contacted my service provider demanding i don’t get changed by them for anything and requested they block all messages from the number in question. I didn’t know there was a number i could forward the message onto with my service provider so thanks for that. I also emailed info@dataprotection.ie and now im looking for a European wide body to complain too, as im not too confident with regtel as i got a NDR back saying my email i sent was spam. That sort of stuff really gets under my skin.

By: jb

jb — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:25:24 +0000

I got crazy guy calling in Arabic and limited English for more than 6 hours in one day – evening till 2am at night. The guy used 2 phone numbers and kept calling me almost once in 20 minutes and total of his call was about 30 times including 2 messages I quoted below. He called me again in this morning before 9am.

يا معغن اناعو زك فى شغل متخليش و حده در عليم كلمنى ام تغضه”
ok“
+20117718273

“Hello, good night really i like your voice and i hope to hear u again and know more about u like ur name and how old u are? Good night and good dream with angel my name is ahmed and my number is 0117718273″
+20100793599

By: anthony byrne

anthony byrne — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:59:40 +0000

i recieved 10 txt messages today which i was charged 10 euro.
I did not subscribe to any service,o2 said it was from a company called netsize.
The short number is 57581
Does anyone know how i can get refunded?
Should i contact Regtel?

By: lidia

lidia — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:10:17 +0000

im getting texts from 57682, it charges me 2euro a message can you tell me how to stop it please and how to get my money back.

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