Personal blog of Chris Ergatides

You very easily misread my posts recently, and I will have to do something about that. You are older now and should know that, if anything, I am not pissed off.

I do not even notice these messages, they are silently blocked and optionally logged by SMS Filter. I open the log 2 or 3 times a year, mostly just to check that the application is still working.

Now, with regards to your 8888 and “OFF LISTS” command, this is only any good for premium SMS subscriptions as you have pointed out yourself. It won’t prevent a known spammer from sending you a text message because it is not a premium SMS service, they pay for it, not me. This is one reason why I do not try to “unsubscribe” myself from them. They have been rude enough to invade my privacy without my consent, so let the bastards pay I say.

The second reason is just that, I haven’t chosen to be a subscriber of their SMS adverts. I haven’t bought anything from their shops, I haven’t even been inside any of these shops and I sure as hell haven’t signed up for anything from these companies.

Someone might say, why don’t you just unsubscribe since a number is provided to do so in the text message itself? Good question and I’ll let you in on a little secret. Once a list has enough UNsubscribers, a company will sell it to another company as “a good list”, and you’re back to square one. I don’t care who or how many people deny this, it’s the only possible way I would have ended up in these unknown company lists to begin with.

Thirdly, one of these persistent spammers, is spamming through a service called cybeewebsms, which I can’t tell you much about because quite honestly I don’t care. The only thing I remember about it from many years ago, is that it is actually a service provided by CyTA themselves, which goes to show you about how much CyTA itself cares or is doing absolutely anything about protecting the privacy of their customers. At the very least, one of CyTA’s competitors, MTN, has a page with information regarding normal SMS spam (http://is.gd/dULmzu). Where is CyTA’s equivalent information?

And I suppose lastly, and more importantly, I’m hoping that somebody who is related with any of these companies will figure out what a search engine is and get to see the fruits of their hard earned cash and labour.