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Old 06-18-2007, 02:58 PM   #1
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GAWD! At 2:30 this morning, someone out there decides that my car needs to be washed. So they send me this spam advertisment for a place that doesn't even exist. But wait! It gets better! I don't even have a car.

Another one at 5:52. "Get laid TONIGHT! Dial X-XXX-XXX-XXXX". Now that one was a shocker.

But here's the shocker.

Yesterday, at 1:00AM. My gMail Mobile app starts a complicated series of chimes. "You have (1) New Message". So naturally I open the message, expecting to see some funny joke my friend sent me. But not this time. In my tiny cellphone display screen, there was this hot pic of some japanese girl I don't even know.

I never give out my cellphone number to ANYONE except my family. Any recommendations as to how I could stop this? (besides get rid of the phone.)

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Old 06-18-2007, 03:20 PM   #2
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Was the picture sexually explicit?
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Old 06-18-2007, 03:22 PM   #3
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I think the problem has something to do with the fact that you gave your number out only to family members and yet you still thought your friend could have sent you a message.
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Old 06-18-2007, 03:23 PM   #4
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[Person] is not available please leave a message after the beep. If you want to page this person press etc.

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Old 06-18-2007, 03:48 PM   #5
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None of my friends know my cellphone number. I just got it last night.

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Old 06-18-2007, 03:51 PM   #6
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So naturally I open the message, expecting to see some funny joke my friend sent me. But not this time.
Oh. Ok. None of your friends know your number.
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Old 06-18-2007, 04:29 PM   #7
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Oh. Ok. None of your friends know your number.
They have my gMail though, which goes to my cellphone :O

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Old 06-18-2007, 04:51 PM   #8
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They have my gMail though, which goes to my cellphone :O

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Stop having your gmail go to your phone.
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Old 06-18-2007, 05:04 PM   #9
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Stop having your gmail go to your phone.
Why? It's free on my phone plan.

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Old 06-18-2007, 05:08 PM   #10
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It's probably because the phone number belonged to somebody else beofre yours, and they must've had some perverded friends...
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Old 06-18-2007, 05:40 PM   #11
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Oh. Well then I think it's obvious that the spam is coming through gmail.
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Old 06-19-2007, 12:22 AM   #12
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so there you have it, listen to gazeebo...he's teh shiznit...
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Old 06-19-2007, 09:12 AM   #13
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I found a solution.

They switched my phone number, and things seem to be going ok. I still have the same gMail, but no spam.

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Old 06-19-2007, 08:20 PM   #14
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What's your gmail address?
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