Text Message Spam
This weekend I got a series of text messages from 678-315-xxxx. It started with "Hey what's up?" Then I got two copies of the picture below (do you know this girl?). Then I got a longer message "Hey wesley its kirstin on ericas phone...im at the lake hizouse with her, and I don't get service down here...sorry..iloveyou"
I have no idea who this person or this number is, so I can only assume it is some kind of spam. There may be a chance that it is not since it is a local number. I don't know what Verizon charges for a text message (used to be 10 cents, now may be 25), but this spam has cost me (actually Jeb) from 40 cents to a dollar already.
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I got several more messages in a burst:
1. Hey this is erica, if you want to go out with kirstin you need to hang out every once in a while, TELL THE TRUTH to her, and atleast talk on the phone to
2. t trust you enough to go to florida with kirstin...and she's getting stressed from you..so yeah she wanys a break while you go there...so yal are breaki
3. n up while you go to florida...(kirstin said)
Now it started sounding less generic, so I called Erica and a girl with a southern accent answered. I asked her to stop sending text messages, but she either hung up or we were disconnected.
Posted by UT | June 8, 2008 7:38 PM
something like this happened to David's phone when we set him up. Some mad sounding man speaking ebonics called more than 10 times leaving screaming messages to some girl. Luckily I intercepted the calls. Bob called him and told him the number belonged to a 14 yr old and he stopped calling.
Posted by carol | June 8, 2008 9:00 PM
Here is a post about cell phone spam. I'm pretty sure I can get a refund just by asking via e-mail. Kathy got a few last fall and they reversed the charges. It's 20 cents each with Verizon.
Posted by Jeb | June 8, 2008 9:22 PM