WTF...TEXT MESSAGE? ??

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So at 12.30 am last night I get a text message from imyibhayk@ilovekatzs.com and this is what it says.

“(Hey it’s Fredric) A fountain of energy whats going to move in the mkt tomorrow, UTEI, thats News You Can Use”

What the fuck is it? I have never got a text message from a .com

I’m kind of pissed if its advertisement though.

Should I go to Verizon and have them block it or something? I’m kind of confused on the matter. Plus its 5.15 am…but I’m not sure if I should be pissed/worried/ it was a mistake…

Any ideas guys ?

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When I had a sidekick2 on T-mobile I would get spam txts like this alot.

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I don’t think they can block anything.

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strangely enough. My GF’s phone gets spam txt’s as well. at like 7am. from dot.coms.

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i lol’d at the domain name

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omg I want iliketurtlz.com

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its a scam text… its designed to look like an inside stock tip… from somebody who has already bought a shit ton of hte penny stock a couple days prior. you are suppposed to buy a crap load and up the value a ton, and then they go and sell their shares, adn the value drops, u get screwed, they make $

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yeah i get a ton of those stock tips on my adelphia email thats all spam now, i don’t even use it.

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Gotta stay off those kitty porn websites…

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You can block @ vtext.com

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It doesn’t even make sense to me, ok i’ll go buy stocks from this random text…who the hell is that stupid.

Edit: I didn’t even know what they where trying to talk about.

Kitty porn is my favorite though :frowning:

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if its verizon, call 800-922-0204, let them know it happened. they will be reversing charges (if you have any) for these texts. there is some sort of alert going on about them

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i have a spam blocker on my pearl

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Josh, I got the same text the other day. Weird.

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lol my dad got some of these too

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I got one for the first time the other night. I’m not sure how they got my number or if its a brute force.

It’s a pump & dump spam attempt, like Viper explained. Most people aren’t dumb enough to base their investments on a random misspelled text message but there must be a few that fall for it, otherwise this type of spam wouldn’t exist.

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my email address at work is public so I get those in the email form all day long, usually 50-75 a day. its ridiculous that they are allowed to do that because it costs some people .10 everytime they send/receive a text message

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EW

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I got the same or similar text message yesterday. I received another spam one today. Yesterday was the first one I have ever received on my phone.

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Did those of you who get spam texts sign up for the do not call registry (does this even apply for texts?), or did you put your cell number on a potentially shady website while making a purchase?

The only spam text I’ve ever gotten was from the Crocodile Bar, and I know how that started…