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Killing Unwanted Text Messages from Yahoo! Alerts?
Creighti asks: "When I first got my new cellphone I immediately received several automated Text Message 'Alerts' from Yahoo and MSN which recurred on a daily basis. My guess was (is) that the previous owner of my cell phone number signed up for these things. Six months later I'm still getting unwanted text messages from Yahoo! Alerts.
I managed to get rid of the MSN messages by signing up with MSN (gack), registering the phone number as mine, and de-selecting all text messages. I've tried the same trick with Yahoo. I've tried filling out the Yahoo! Help form that appeared to apply (interestingly enough, the Yahoo Help entry I've used several times to request they stop sending the unwanted alert appears to have been removed, but clicking the 'No' button on this page would work). I've even tried emailing abuse@yahoo.com. Anyone else getting text-message spammed by Yahoo! (or any other service)? Any suggestions for what I should do next to try and get Yahoo! to stop sending these unwanted messages?" Why aren't the text message preferences deleted when the cancellation notices comes thru?
> Yahoo or MSN do not receive notification when
> someone cancels their phone account.
Tough shit. They send the stuff: it's up to them to figure out when to stop. If they can't they can damn well not send it at all.
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... a few years back in the merger a friend of mine was murdered by a drunk driver. His webpage was all that was left. It took some time and some emailing but eventually a person started a correspondance and got it all back up.
YMMV but I bet if you just cycle thru and eventually do enough abuse accounts you'll get a response- but be polite.