Times: Beware of the mobile text pests

The Times
October 25, 2008
Beware of the mobile text pests

There has been an alarming growth in the number of people ripped off by
premium-rate phone services

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/mon...cle5002795.ece

Pity the article didn't mention that T-Mobile and Vodafone (and also
reportedly Tesco - or whichever network they use) offer premium SMS
blocking.

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In news:[email protected],
Allan Gould <[email protected]> typed, for some strange, unexplained
reason:
: The Times
: October 25, 2008
: Beware of the mobile text pests
:
: There has been an alarming growth in the number of people ripped off
: by premium-rate phone services
:
:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/mon...cle5002795.ece
:
: Pity the article didn't mention that T-Mobile and Vodafone (and also
: reportedly Tesco - or whichever network they use) offer premium SMS
: blocking.

Tesco use O2 and yes they offer both reverse text and premium rate (09xx)
phone call barring.

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In news:[email protected],
> Allan Gould <[email protected]> typed, for some strange, unexplained
> reason:
> : The Times
> : October 25, 2008
> : Beware of the mobile text pests
> :
> : There has been an alarming growth in the number of people ripped off
> : by premium-rate phone services
> :
> :
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/mon...cle5002795.ece
> :
> : Pity the article didn't mention that T-Mobile and Vodafone (and also
> : reportedly Tesco - or whichever network they use) offer premium SMS
> : blocking.
>
> Tesco use O2 and yes they offer both reverse text and premium rate (09xx)
> phone call barring.
>
> Ivor
>

None of the others will as it is a source of income and they get a cut from
each reverse message and demands to "STOP"! Similar to the way networks
will not block mobile phones they know to be stolen being used on their
networks. They can be identified very easily and cross references made
between the SIM and IMEI, also numbers associated with them.