Reply to: Loan Company Texts

[cojak]

Anyone else getting bombarded with texts offering cheap payday loans or purporting to have approved a loan application they've received?

Getting really irritating now, I'm getting several of these every day and I would like to know what scumbag gave these parasites my mobile number.

No, but then I don't give out my number to every Tom, Dick or Harry who asks for it.

May be a point there. I always kept my personal e-mails separate from work, contracts, shopping etc. and never had any spam of note. Until that is one pratt I used to work with forwarded my personal addy to a load of agents. Now inundated on that address and I've had to turn on spam filtering. More than likely the same thing has happened with my mobile number.

Worst spam I'm getting at the moment is from some twunts called adverpages that seems able to evade the spam traps at times.

But that's a bummer, and what's done is done.

There is one joker who subscribes to the IT Board who emails me offering very dubious money laundering type jobs every time I upload my CV there.

[Fandango]

I get these all the time

Check with your phone provider as they generally have a txt number you can forward the spam txt onto. I think they use this to then identify sim cards sending these messages and get them blocked

I'm on O2 and txt number is 7726 (i think its the same for orange as well)

SPAM and unwanted subscription texts - O2

HTH

[alluvial]

Not phone numbers as I have a PAYG sim card that I give to pimps which is chucked when I find a new gig, but my email address (cv@*****.com) gets all sorts of companies that can only come from people selling the list (this is unsolicited so car insurance etc rather than spam viagra)

Hmmm. Can you think of any scumbags that have your mobile number?

May be a point there. I always kept my personal e-mails separate from work, contracts, shopping etc. and never had any spam of note. Until that is one pratt I used to work with forwarded my personal addy to a load of agents. Now inundated on that address and I've had to turn on spam filtering. More than likely the same thing has happened with my mobile number.

Worst spam I'm getting at the moment is from some twunts called adverpages that seems able to evade the spam traps at times.

[alluvial]

I got the S2 as well, but I am using Kaspersky AV which prompts me after each text sent from a new sender if I want to block or not.

Hmm, might be worth having a look, cheers.

[pmeswani]

I've got the Galaxy S2 and it comes with that function where you can add a number to a blacklist but they have a lot of different numbers that they use.

I got the S2 as well, but I am using Kaspersky AV which prompts me after each text sent from a new sender if I want to block or not.

[pmeswani]

Not an Android

[SimonMac]

Hmmm. Can you think of any scumbags that have your mobile number?

Not phone numbers as I have a PAYG sim card that I give to pimps which is chucked when I find a new gig, but my email address (cv@*****.com) gets all sorts of companies that can only come from people selling the list (this is unsolicited so car insurance etc rather than spam viagra)

[oscarose]

If you have an Android Phone, you can download some software that allows you to block certain numbers. Don't know if they exist on other platforms.

Not an Android

[fullyautomatix]

I am getting bombarded with calls telling me they can reclaim thousands of my PPI. I have never taken out any PPI in the past and they all seem quite surprised when I tell them that.

[Diver]

Anyone else getting bombarded with texts offering cheap payday loans or purporting to have approved a loan application they've received?

Getting really irritating now, I'm getting several of these every day and I would like to know what scumbag gave these parasites my mobile number.

A little research shows that GB Consumer finance/Mason Chase ltd, operated by
Millionair Director
Mark Kennedy
St Johns Chambers
Love Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 1QN

run a number of websites such as
purplepayday
paydaypush
urgentcashtilpayday/
ashline
247cash
investor.relations@gbcf.co.uk
corporate@gbcf.co.uk
customer.satisfaction@purplepayday.com
corporate@purplepayday.com
customers@cashone.co.uk
info@easyloans-ltd.co.uk

- and is claimed by many to be responsible for the Junk Text messages & Emails that plague us daily.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Yep same here. I get loads about loan approvals, insurance claims, mobile phone offers, PPI claims and all sorts. Apparently if you respond to them telling them STOP that tells them you are actually there which allows them to then sell on these real numbers to other idiot text spammers. Sods.

[alluvial]

If you have an Android Phone, you can download some software that allows you to block certain numbers. Don't know if they exist on other platforms.

I've got the Galaxy S2 and it comes with that function where you can add a number to a blacklist but they have a lot of different numbers that they use.

[pmeswani]

Yep me too, 3-4 per week

If you have an Android Phone, you can download some software that allows you to block certain numbers. Don't know if they exist on other platforms.

[Old Greg]

Anyone else getting bombarded with texts offering cheap payday loans or purporting to have approved a loan application they've received?

Getting really irritating now, I'm getting several of these every day and I would like to know what scumbag gave these parasites my mobile number.

Hmmm. Can you think of any scumbags that have your mobile number?

[oscarose]

Anyone else getting bombarded with texts offering cheap payday loans or purporting to have approved a loan application they've received?

Getting really irritating now, I'm getting several of these every day and I would like to know what scumbag gave these parasites my mobile number.

Yep me too, 3-4 per week