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Posted May 08, 2014
So, last year I switched to a new mobile phone operator and I observed something I hadn't ever seen before: spam. I keep getting messages with offers from the operator or their partners. The amount of those varies but lately I'm getting like two of them a day. It's incredibly annoying since normally when I get a message it's for a good reason and is more urgent than say an email.

The thing is that before I switched to this particular operator (one of the most popular ones in Poland and also a pretty good one, as far as I can tell) I had *never* seen anything like this, neither in Poland nor Germany. The only messages I got from my earlier operators concerned important stuff, for instance I'd get warnings when I was about to use up all my free minutes.

I was wondering whether it's actually a perfectly common thing these days (not just in Poland or Europe but in general) and in fact my earlier operators were exceptional in that they didn't bombard me with spam.
Posted May 08, 2014
They still do it for land lines, why not mobile?
Posted May 08, 2014
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F4LL0UT: So, last year I switched to a new mobile phone operator and I observed something I hadn't ever seen before: spam. I keep getting messages with offers from the operator or their partners. The amount of those varies but lately I'm getting like two of them a day. It's incredibly annoying since normally when I get a message it's for a good reason and is more urgent than say an email.

The thing is that before I switched to this particular operator (one of the most popular ones in Poland and also a pretty good one, as far as I can tell) I had *never* seen anything like this, neither in Poland nor Germany. The only messages I got from my earlier operators concerned important stuff, for instance I'd get warnings when I was about to use up all my free minutes.

I was wondering whether it's actually a perfectly common thing these days (not just in Poland or Europe but in general) and in fact my earlier operators were exceptional in that they didn't bombard me with spam.
It happens to me too. Every single day. Sometimes more than once per day.
Posted May 08, 2014
Never in Denmark.
Posted May 08, 2014
I receive a call like that between 1 and 2 times on average in a month. Guess I'm pretty lucky
Posted May 08, 2014
Easy.. autoreject unknown callers and private calls ;)
Posted May 08, 2014
There is usually some very well hidden option to get you out of receiving those calls and messages. Good luck finding it!
Posted May 08, 2014
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F4LL0UT: snip
In Spain your mobile phone operator will text you with offers of new mobile phones/rates or additional services, though you may told them to discontinue that behavior.

However, you get constant marketing calls from the rival companies, that's way far more annoying. Grrr!
Post edited May 08, 2014 by Thespian*
Posted May 08, 2014
I'm with Mobilcom Debitel and I can tell you that they are irritating as fuck with this.

They'll often send me official-looking emails with subject lines such as "Contract information for telephone number xxx-xxx" and it simply turns out to be contract renewal spam, and they'll also frequently phone me up with offers of free SIM cards/second numbers, free insurance for being such a loyal customer etc. etc., whereby the sellers only admit that it does cost more after all when pressed about this six or seven times.

I kept telling them that I didn't want this, and after six months I just reported them to the Bundesnetzagentur and configured my phone and landline router to block all calls from their number.

Sure enough, two months later, another call comes in from them to the same effect from a different number. Cunts.
Post edited May 08, 2014 by jamyskis
Posted May 08, 2014
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F4LL0UT: I was wondering whether it's actually a perfectly common thing these days (not just in Poland or Europe but in general) and in fact my earlier operators were exceptional in that they didn't bombard me with spam.
I believe both Verizon and Sprint have similar practices in the US. Depending on the provider, you can sometimes opt-out of such marketing efforts by logging into your account online and uncheck "receive offers from us and our partners (or something similar) in your account settings.
Posted May 08, 2014
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Thespian*: In Spain your mobile phone operator text you with offers of new mobile phones/rates or additional services, though you may told them to discontinue that behavior.
Depends of operator, one that their name start by M, spams you constinously with offers of him and of their partners. Since I changed of operator, no more spam, only some text of addional services, but rarely.
Posted May 08, 2014
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Grargar: It happens to me too. Every single day. Sometimes more than once per day.
? Which one? While I do get the occasional call about an offer from one of the other operators (never directly from them, but through a 3rd party company), I don't recall any text messages about offers. Certainly not so often that I recall of it at least.
Posted May 08, 2014
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Grargar: It happens to me too. Every single day. Sometimes more than once per day.
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JMich: ? Which one? While I do get the occasional call about an offer from one of the other operators (never directly from them, but through a 3rd party company), I don't recall any text messages about offers. Certainly not so often that I recall of it at least.
Vodafone. Damn Vodafone.
Posted May 08, 2014
Previously I would just get messages about my specific operator (usually advertising their latest & most expensive (they said cheapest, but I don't trust them) deals), but since I switched operator I started getting spam SMS as well. Then I found a function called something along the line of "accept operator messages" (in Swedish, so it might well have another name in English) on my phone, and once I disabled that, I stopped getting spam.
Posted May 08, 2014
It just got banned in Russia. Time will show if it has any effect.

Additionally, the operator is now required to maintain two balance accounts for each client: the regular one for actual phone service, and the scam-prone one to keep the funds the client specifically designates as stealable. That's huge, but think of this: cell phones have been in use in Russia for 20+ years with client account balance being free for just about anyone to steal, limited only by operator greed vs common sense.
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