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Killing Unwanted Text Messages from Yahoo! Alerts?

Posted by Cliff on from the dealing-with-phone-spam dept.

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?

6 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. It's a dupe !! by rixster · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry - force of habit

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  2. Re:Not to be a pain in the a**... by pspeed · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Just wait, it will be posted again as top story in a few hours. ;)

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  3. Re:Well if it's in your head by chef_raekwon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in 5 years, when the government installs that 'chip' into your head, you'll have some 'head'spam.

    try gettin rid of that ;)

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  4. Re:Putting an evil flip on the question... by circusnews · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone got the cell phone number of the spam king or his lawyer?

    Oh, wait, this is completely off topic, and is something that any reasonable person knows is wrong. As a reasonable person I could not condone, nor would I ever want to see the spam king or his lawyer get spammed via his cell phone. Slashdot moderators please mod this down to -1 Offtopic.

  5. They publish this... by Kafka_Canada · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The Slashdot editors post this basically trivial story, but make no mention of the fact that AOL just patented instant messaging . What the hell??

    all's i'm sayin' is, (crack) is somebody's been smokin' SUMTHIN'....

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  6. Re:Sue - Its the American Way by mstockman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I realize you were trying to be funny, but you're also perpetuating a myth that the McDonald's coffee incident was somehow an unreasonable lawsuit. In fact, McDonald's was seriously in the wrong, and deserved a judgment against them. See this site on lawandhelp.com for the truth.