Crime is only a matter of profit margines
Back when I was young and foolish and earnestly saw the value in the noisey plastic, I was on a pay as you go deal-io, and found I kept getting random advertisement messages I'd never invited or replied to but each text message rinsed at least £1.10 off my balance. The first couple of occasions I just ignored it but it accelerated to such a point where I would be down nearly £5.50 a week for receiving unwanted text messages!

So, I call up the customer support (an ingenious invention whereby a company can avoid resolving mistakes and other piss-fucking-poor service by populating the helplines with a drooling pack of mouth-breathers) and explain the problem and see absolutely no sodding problem with this.

Phone-monkey 'I see you top up at least £20 a month, though, so that shouldn't be a problem.'

Clearly the 'tard thinks I am happy having this money stolen from me and I set about explaining I consider this theft and I want these advertisements blocked, but apparently this can't be done. Still beaming with the knowledge of a job well done the sodding pleb asks me if I want to buy a new bolt on for 100 free texts or whatever for £10 a week/month.

'I'll leave it for now, since I'm paying twenty quid a month already.'

'Fair enough, thank you for calling. For reference my name is-' Click.

Shit it. Fuck you Oh-two.
(Bad Magic ain't that cute... but its wrong!, Thu 30 Jul 2009, 17:49, 1 reply)

Try texting the word "STOP" to the number that's sending you the adverts
IIRC it's an OFCOM rule that they have to stop sending you crap if you do that.
(razakel, Sat 1 Aug 2009, 18:03, closed)