Sms Spam, Gprs And Credit Cards

[raro]

I receive occasional SMS spam and since I find any kind of spam quite annoying I usually call the DTAC call center asking them where the originator of the spam got my number from.

Yesterday the guy slipped something like whether or not I use GPRS and/or credit cards. Indeed, I do use both. What this has to do with spam I asked. Ooopppss...nooo....has nothing to do with it. Smells a bit like a rat, doesn't it?

Can someone here shed some light on this? More than curious!

raro

[lomatopo]

What do the spam SMS's say? Who are they from? I think that 100% of SMS spam comes from the operator. Given the competitive nature of the mobile market share battle here, DTAC would not be selling subscribers' data for fear of it being purchased by a competitor who could target that subscriber to change carriers. I imagine DTAC are targeting you with promotional SMSes based on their perception of your usage/patterns. I think you can opt out of all SMSes, at least I did with One-2-Call. (They do sneak promo details into status requests, *121#, GPRS monthly plan renewal, etc.)

What rat do you think you are smelling?

[Veazer]

I'm tired of the spam as well. I know mine started when my gf used my number on a smirnoff party 'guest list'. For awhile it was just Smirnoff invites, now i get an invites for every !@#$% event in Chiang Mai.

The pre-recorded audio commercials from DTAC are the worst though. All too many times I've pulled over to the side of the road to answer a call only to find out it was advertising bs.

[nikster]

I'm tired of the spam as well. I know mine started when my gf used my number on a smirnoff party 'guest list'. For awhile it was just Smirnoff invites, now i get an invites for every !@#$% event in Chiang Mai.

I am on that list of Smirnoff party goers too - horrible. If you ever find out who to complain to, let me know.

Whenever I get too much AIS spam, I call them to make it very clear that I wish to not receive any promotional info, or any info at all except the low balance sms. They told me to go to menu->"mobile life" and unsubscribe. Which seems to have worked, I haven't gotten any AIS spam since.

[Guest Reimar]

AIS is much more "clean" that Dtac!!I had Dtac for a short time to test Edge and 20 Spam-SMS on a day was nothing! And I haven't use the phone for anything else!

So I bdo believe that Dtac itself give that Data to someone or some of the employees of Dtac having a second "income?"!

Cheers.