Ask HN: How can I stop getting spam SMS?

1 pointsby billybobقبل 15 سنة3 comments

I keep getting spam SMS messages. This drives me nuts, because 1) I'm being charged for those and 2) the carrier doesn't provide a spam filter or let me provide my own.

I'm pretty sure that those two things are related.

Does anybody know a solution for this, or do I just have to hope I can start a movement and yell loud enough to get them to fix it?

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th0ma5قبل 15 سنة

That's what I wound up doing when it got really bad. I found the easiest way I could complain (I think a web form at the time) and sent them all the details each time.

billybobقبل 15 سنة

Any results?

th0ma5قبل 15 سنة

Oh yes! To be fair, they were really bad at the time, like 3~10 a day for a couple of months, I didn't have much choice to complain. It stopped within a week. Now, I think the only weirdness was around new years with the Android wrong-person text bug (whatever that was). My work phone I get maybe 2~3 per month, if that, but I don't even know who to gripe to on that one except resources at work, but it isn't so bad I don't mind so much.