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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Mobile SPAM Reporting 07text0spam

I came across an interesting little service today at

http://www.07text0spam.com/

Although it doesn't look like they are getting many spam reported through them I figure it is always a good idea to support those who are fighting the good fight.

The only downside I see to them is that it does cost the consumer a standard rate text charge to forward the message to the service.

A review of their Privacy Policy shows no indication that these guys are anything other than legit.

If anyone has had an experience with 07text0spam - I'd be happy to hear about it.

posted by Troy Norcross at 8:47 AM

3 Comments:

Blogger technokitten said...

I don't think they have a lot of traffic and were relatively late into the market to do this. I co-founded Grumbletext back in 2003 and it's still going strong. You can forward your message via SMS (standard rate text) or you can add your 'grumble' to the forum online. It's a place where you can check if something you've received is spam or scam, what to do about it and more importantly, your experience is there for anyone else to see. It's run on a voluntary basis - there are no sponsors or any corporate backing.

Check it out at http://www.grumbletext.co.uk

You'll see that the usual suspects turn up time after time and it's the same kind of problems that occur over and over.

The good news is, there are a lot of providers out there who do give great customer service, never quibble about refunds and have a refreshing approach to the whole mobile content customer service thing. But it's not yet everyone.

And did you know Vodafone has a barely publicised v-spam service too. I have no idea how well or not it does. I hope it's doing brilliantly to help stamp out text scams and complements the good work happening at Grumbletext.

11:49 PM

 
Blogger wendy said...

think that text spam site has closed? I used it several times and was just about to add another 2 numbers to it!

8:02 AM

 
Anonymous 07text0spam said...

Hi, the 07text0spam was agreat idea and started in 2003 so not late into the market. In fact it was launched fully on same day as the privacy act.

I was the founder of the service and did so much more than just send a txt to us. We worked with a unique way into ICSTIS for complaints and also into ASA and IC office.

Also aim was not only to stop companies after the event but to educate as well. We had on the site all the resources for companies to do it right.

It was only for text messages and people like Adrian at Gumbletxt done a good job on sides of informing away from text messages. The reason it is no longer active is because the main company behind it had problems within the management and ended up close the doors, this meant the loss of 07text0spam as a number to txt to.

It did cost the std rate to txt to us and no money was made from that (apart from the network of course) but was a small price to pay to know that it was being taken seriously somewhere. We had over 25,000 txts in the service and managed to stop one of the biggest scams in their tracks.

Also myself and staff at 07text0spam did end up attending ICSTIS at times for their solicitors as expert witness.

It is a shame the service is not running now as i know what good it done for 4 years. Glad to hear there are more 'watchdogs' out there to keep the companies in check and for others to find where bad service and scam service is around.

Another note - ICSTIS name change to Phone Pay Plus, do they not sound like of the service providers now?

1:49 PM

 

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