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Verizon Wins Injunction Against Text Spammer
bulled writes "CNet is running a story illustrating the US court system's ongoing harsh opinion about unwarranted communications of any kind. Verizon Wireless recently won a lawsuit against a company that was delivering massive numbers of spam text messages to its customers. Specialized Programming and Marketing and Henderson was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in damages to Verizon Wireless, some two years after Verizon filed the suit against the company. In 2005 Specialized Programming sent some 100,000 emails to Verizon phones. Verizon now has an injunction against the Marketing firm, another win for a company that has developed a reputation for going after spammers."
Have your cell carrier turn off text messaging on your account. Worked for me.
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If you respond to one of those messages with "STOP" they'll opt you out. Sprint's policy is to have opt-out instructions in all outbound marketing SMS; if you call them to complain they'll generally take it pretty seriously.
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Mobile phone service and charges rarely make sense in the US. We are charged for making and receiving calls, for sending and receiving text messages, and in general most phones are completely locked down so they can only be used with the provider you bought the phone from.
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According to the Federal Government, you are not required to give your SSN to anyone but the Federal Government (think IRS) and your employer.
The government can't save you.
If you consult for small businesses, your SSN is laying around on W9 forms god knows where, protected by god knows who.
Guess which ISP is ranked as the world's worst by The Spamhaus Project, in terms of "the few networks who, out of corporate greed or mismanagement, choose to be part of the problem"?
r izon.com
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks.lasso
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=ve
Before rushing to praise Verizon, consider that Verizon are knowingly and unrepentently hosting more of the world's hardcore spam operations than any other network, anywhere in the world.
No tin-foil-hat brand for this one, Its widely accepted in canadian telecomm call centers (not mentioning any names) that this is EXACTLY the strategy behind most spam sms policies.
Verizon just realized you can push PR at the same time as double dipping as you say =)
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