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Thursday 16 June 2011

SMS Spam: "You have still not claimed the compensation you are due.."

These mystery ambulance-chasing SMS spammers are at it again:
You have still not claimed the compensation you are due for the accident you had. To claim then pls reply CLAIM. To opt out text STOP
In this case the spam comes from +44749353036, but the spammers rotate numbers regularly as they get blacklisted.

If you get one of these, forward the message to 7726 ("SPAM") on T-Mobile, O2, Orange or Three. If you are a Vodafone customer, forward it to 87726 ("VSPAM"). Your carrier should be able to block the spammer's number and with enough evidence may be able to take action against them.

Update: 3's spam reporting number is 37726 (3SPAM). Thanks for the tip, Richard!

5 comments:

v0ha said...

7726 for Three not 7226

Conrad Longmore said...

@v0ha

Ooops... silly me!

Conrad Longmore said...

Another one from +447864762881

Richard said...

Thanks for highlighting this.

I've checked with @ThreeUK on Twitter and they said to forward SMS Spam on Three to 37726 - different to the other UK operators who use 7726.

See http://bit.ly/nDN3Zw on the Three Web-Site.

Richard said...

Thanks for highlighting this.

I've checked with @ThreeUK on Twitter and they said to forward SMS Spam on Three to 37726 - different to the other UK operators who use 7726.

See http://bit.ly/nDN3Zw on the Three Web-Site.

Hope this helps anyone else experiencing the SMS spam you've mentioned!