When SMS turns into Spam Messaging Services
Doctor, Engineer or Actor! Which profession suits you the best? To find out sms JOB (Your Name) to 51515 E.g.: JOB Raj to 51515. Rs.3/sms
This is a sample SMS that is delivered to its customers by Vodafone’s (Mumbai, India) marketing department. I wonder if there really are people who use these type of sms services that are far from truth. Say I send JOB SHAHRUKH what job suggestion will return back. ACTOR? Then I think Vodafone is suggesting that everyone who bear name Amitabh, Shahrukh or Aamir are best suited to work as actor. If the returned job suggestions is NOT ACTOR then we should say to our very Shahrukh Khan “Hey you are misfit in what you are doing! Why don’t you try something else”
What do you say?
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Here are some more interesting SMSs
Kya aap romantic hain? Kaisi hai apki romantic life life? Janiye yeh sab! Sms VAL (ur Date of Birth) to 53131. For eg. VAL 25041982 to 53131. Rs3/sms
Ab check karein kitna pyaar hai do logon mein. sms SOUL (your name) (your partners name) to 53131. E.g. SOUL Saif Kareena to 53131. Rs3/sms
Just imagine what will happen if your wife sends your date of birth for the first sms above to recieve “HIGHLY ROMANTIC” and your’s and her name for the second sms to get result “TOO LOW”!!!… guess ! guess guess!!!!
Some more….
Smart, Intelligent, hard working aur kya khubiyan hein aap mein! SMS NAME (apna naam) to 51515 par aur janiye apne baare mein. E.g. Name Salman to 51515. Rs3/sms
Red, Green, Yellow, Black or Blue! Aapka favourite colour batata hai hai aapki personality ke baare mein. SMS COLOR to 53131 Rs3/sms
Aap ke sone ke tareeke se pata chalti hai aapki personality. Sms SLEEP to 51515 par aur janiye apni personality ke baare mein. Rs3/sms
Oh! So there are so many ways to know about your own personality! Which one should I use to know about myself?? Why not all three!!! Here we go!!! … Seems like I have Multiple Personalities (disorder) 
Here are some more…
Jaaniye Love Guru se 10 golden rules jinse aap jeet sakte hai kisi bhi ladki ka dil. SMS karein RULES to 51515. Rs3/sms
Har insaan ke andar chupa hua hai ek leader. Aapke andar ka leader kaun hai. SMS karein IDOL (apna naam) to 51515 par. For eg: IDOL Kareena. Rs3/sms
Feels like Partner-2 and Leader-102…
Got bored reading all these above messeges? Hey don’t forget these are samples from what I get each day!!
If you are one of those using these services remember all these SMSs have a single thing in common and that’s “Rs3/sms”… so whatever be the content, intention is the same! Increase your bill or decrease your talktime, Rs.3 at a time.
Jaago Grahak Jaago!
spam SMS is also often happen in my country indonesia
4b1L
24 May 08 at 9:52 pm
I get such sms every day….no wonder the moment it arrives i delete it without reading and sometimes i keep the sms tone to mute..so wen the message arrives i am not disturbed but when i see it ..i laugh it out and delete it .
also sometimes you get calls and the moment you pick up you hear some song then you are asked to press 1 for this song or 2 for that song as your caller tune….BUll shit…fucking disturbing call..But what i simply do is put that phone number in the call screening folder of my mobile….
On nokia sets it is in contacts>then last option– No. screening is there….just add this number there in that folder of your phone and next time call from that number comes your phone will not ring and will not disturb you..of course your phone will flash that number and tell you call coming…..but if you r at something important or do not want yo be annoyed then ….you know what you gotta do now….
I think these Big companies like Vodafone know that there millions of Gullible ..illiterate people out there in India who can be fleeced of there money….
i mean what could be bad than that….robbing such poor people of there so precious money….and it happens mostly with people who have prepaid lifetime sim cards….and prepaid card…they keep flooding them with offers and try to confuse them and ultimately get more from them.
I recently heard Vodafone was Fined 50,00000 lac Indian Ruppes by One New delhi Court……i think that does the Justice……but we need to have much more such thing happening ….also Fucking Govnt should wake up and Act and Implement the rules on ground..Biggest culprits are Fucker Bastard politicians and thoe who have power in their hand BUt don’t act….they are all Rascals.
will not tell you
25 May 08 at 5:10 pm
SMS spam sometimes is really annoying specially if they send you spam credited to your account.You are being pissed of at the same time it eats out your load.
paulette
7 Sep 08 at 12:24 pm
I once thought of taking my ringtone site and converting it into a spam machine for advertisments with google adsense. There is money in this google adsense pays big bucks for cell phone ads.
Google Games
20 Sep 08 at 5:54 pm
sometimes they subscribe without our permission then they lie… when this happened to me i had a lawsuit in my pocket
not telling
1 Oct 08 at 8:05 pm
This has to be totally illegal
Jordan Drake
12 Nov 08 at 4:33 pm