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Never ever respond to these text messages.
Your Updated Prescription Benefits Information. Status: Approved BIN: 900020 PCN:CLAIMNE Group:10035 PLANID:MIMNE MEMBER#:21513305 Present previous Information to pharmacist for immediate service U.S. RxCard Customer Service 866-250-8102 Call Customer Service to request cards to be mailed
If you get this message, Don’t text back to them,Don’t call them. All you do is confirm yourself.
scam text message I received . I do not recommend that you call or text or even come close to responding to this.
Got a text today from 1-832-544-5761 saying
Your Pharmacy prescription benefits information. status aprovedbin: 900020 PC Claimne group:10349 Plan ID:Mimne Member#: 13741199 Present previous information to pharmacist for immediate service U.S. RXCard Customer Service 866-421-3247 Call Customer Service to request cards to be mailed
This is a scam text message do not call do not respond, you will be charged
Here is a phone site talking about the phone number they listed
Just got a text message saying
Is Dave and Angela big jackpot winners email us ; bestdawes@gmail.com
We’re given you 1,500,00 as donation us don’t txt
This is a scam.
Do not respond to anything from this.
Do not email these people, do not text message these people.
There isn’t much you can do but this.
winyoursmas.comwinyoursmas.comwinyoursmas.com
Pure gold.
We are trying to find the connection in all of these text messages that everyone seems to be getting. So we are checking to see if certain phone companies are either compromised or selling our phone numbers out to the next bidder.
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No need for any personal information. Just who is the carrier you are using when you get the spam invites to bogus contests?
CashForChristmas.net is the latest spam to go around. This one came to me later in teh day than normal. No idea who is handing my cell phone number out to cell phone text message scammers/spammers
donnacindy479@CashForChristmas.net : Please enter 8939 here to claim your prize from last week’s entry www.CashForChristmas.net
CashForChristmas.net
and this image is what I got when I tried to leave,CashForChristmas.net While using Firefox browser.
CashForChristmas.net.scam
When I selected “Leave page” I got redirected to a penny bid/auction site. When I clicked “leave page” again, it finally let me go. but I had a background pop up that was on “target.freegiftcardtoday.com”
It was a bit scarier on Internet Explorer. So I left fast and didn’t get screen shot. but that dang “blink doink” sound Explorer makes when you get pop ups startled me.
From what I can guess, they get your email address by having you put this information in on their site, and they sell your email address off to some advertising company willing to spam you for the rest of your life. Of course, since you confirmed it’s a real email address . Do nothing with that website other than warn others of CashForChristmas.net’s risk to you and your privacy.
CashForChristmas.net does not have a prize and CashForChristmas.net does not have a winner.
do not go to CashForChristmas.net . they will give you nothing.
Notice the other messages about scam text messages on here and You will see that nothing changes between all of the sites this guy puts up.
CashForChristmas.net redirects you to
http://111.67.203.41/targob/
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Have you received a text message from Getting XmasTarget.Com? Are you wondering if this Getting XmasTarget.Com is a cam?
The message reads:
My name is Justin. You contact is on the third place, Your X-mas code for http://xmastarget.com?HCBHJKAHEF is (and then some random 4 digit number)
The people who send these text messages are just expecting you to type in your special code and it will tell you that your code is valid, then the website will redirect you to a page to type in your email. your email address will then be sold to hundreds and hundreds of spam websites. Bad news.. no prize no gift. Read the message again, you won nothing. They do not say you won. They do not owe you anything, you willingly gave your email address to a spam broker (I shall coin that phrase!!!). The poor broken English should be the first clue. In his earlier scam text messages, he said less and it was easier to fall for. but now… Now he said a whole sentence.. Sorta.
The like button at the bottom of the page, the count never changes across all of the sites they use this thing on. It’s complete utter crap. best use of this is to share it with someone you hate and let them spam themselves to death. Also notice at the bottom of their page it says ” clicking continue you are agreeing to our Privacy Policy”. Which of course is written in some almost unnoticeable text color.
Highlights of User Agreement
1.These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation and email marketing. For example, if you express interest in a particular product or service, you may be contacted by telephone regarding that particular product or service. prizecenterdirect.us collects minimal demographic and personally identifiable information from many users. This information is aggregated and analyzed to help us tailor future offers and to help our marketing partners and advertising agencies understand the demographics of our customers in order to evaluate the potential effectiveness and profitability of doing business with us. Part of our business model involves sharing personally identifiable information, such as name and address, with third-party marketing concerns.
2.All information provided to prizecenterdirect.us by the users of this site may be used to support our suppression, validation and enhancement services to other marketing companies, advertising agencies, compilers and data companies.
XmasTarget.Com website that the text message spam wants you to visit.
Notice the other messages about scam text messages on here and You will see that nothing changes between all of the sites this guy puts up.
I am sorry to inform you but your cell phone number has been compromised and this dude has it and will continue to send you text messages. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
These messages break out between Thanksgiving and New Year, every year. This is the time when you are most likely to be gullible enough to think you have some special Christmas/New Year luck. And you might want to win back your expenses of the holiday season, in one hit.
Do not share that website on facebook. or we will have an epidemic of spam. and uncontrollable fury of 1996-1999 spam.
Hopefully after the holidays are over, this will subside.
On the plus side, there is an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of their page. On the downside, that link leads to a dead a page.
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Yet another spam text message came to my phone today.
Another text message from a scammer claiming I have been entered into some sort of a contest and have been made eligible for a prize.
wxchequer%kbrnd_dit[1-4] ContestTexts.net:You’ve finished Fourth in our Contest! Your Code is: XXXXX ContestTexts.net
Looks like the moron messed up his scammer application this time.
Here’s a few more scams We have received here in the past few days.
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I left T-Mobile.
Yep, I jumped ship. I went back to Cricket.
The phone that I traded my blackberry 8100 in for is a Sanyo/Kyocera zio. AKA KYOCERA M6000.
Since Cricket was giving away the Sanyo Zio if you trade in your working cell phone from your current carrier, I assumed I should.
This phone is not a brand new technology, at all. This phone was originally with Sprint back in early 2010 brought to Cricket in late 2010.
I was on a plan that gave me 300 minutes of talk time at a cost of $49 a month and I still had fave fives. To now, an unlimited everything for $55 a month.
The first thing was to call T-mobile and request my account number. The guy who answered the phone put on a sincere voice and Acknowledge that he knows that typically when people ask for their account number, they are about to leave the company. The guy asked me if there was anything i was in need of, to keep me from leaving. i let the guy know that I was not happy with how I have been treated so i am looking around, and my first step is to get my account number and that I may or may not leave T-mobile. Really, that was exactly true. I could have backed out of getting my phone number ported over to Cricket, at any time. The guy kept asking questions and hesitating, So i had to get stern with him ‘ look, I am considering leaving and you holding out like this is making me want to leave even more, i just need my number and will consider all option”. He said just about everything he could think of just short of “please don’t talk to other people, you will see how good things could be”, what ever he said. I just hung up because I got my account number. and that’s all I needed.
I gave the teller my account number, in less than 3 minutes the phone was in my hand with a temporary number on it. I got a text message and it said for me to text back with a code and my old number will be moved to cricket. I tried and it did not work. After I called the help line, I realized i wasn’t pressing they ‘*’ key first. My bad. Phone number was switched over to T-mobile just like that. Whole deal took less than 20 minutes to complete.
Cricket Splash Screen on The Zio
Ok. Time to grade the phone.
The Sanyo Kyocera ZIO from Cricket, by feel, is a lot like my blackberry, smooth.
Menu on The Sanyo Kyocera Zio Phone
Nice and thin, slick,no buttons to interface, touch Screen, except volume and camera. I have few complaints about
the camera button. Sensitive when I am not trying to touch the camera button, but doesn’t do squat when I hit that button on purpose. Volume buttons are excellent.
Volume Button on Kyocera Sanyo Zio
there is a data/charging connection on the lower left edge.
Headphone jack on the upper left edge, and an SD card slot on the mid right. All have caps.
Large speaker at the upper back
Pin hole mic on bottom edge.
Screen feels like plastic over glass. I could be wrong as to whether it actually is, it’s just the way the Zio feels to me.
Software.
Initial Storage space 180MB
Yes this an Android 2.2.1 system on the sanyo ZIO.
zio software display
But
The pinch zoom feature, does not happen with this phone. Tap and zoom, yes.
Scroll ball, is a bit sticky and sluggish.
Huge Screen Perfect fit for downsized (not re-sized) hd movies
Watched Diggnation, Tekzilla and life Hacker from the revision 3 website and was impressed with the resolution and quality of the images and video, Nearly never a buffer time. sometimes The revision 3 server hiccups.
Camera takes a very high resolution video, even in room lighting. (never great to have just room lighting)
Every application I tried, all work fine.
There is some bloat ware that I had to root the phone to remove. Some bowling game demo and an “uno” game.
Many applications load constantly, you can not go into settings and turn them off like you could with the g1 on android 1.6. So battery life isn’t what it could be.
Nice fade when opening and closing apps. but again, sometimes sluggish. Keyboard seems to be miss calibrated, When you press the Letter ‘o’ you get the letter ‘p’ and so on… If you are a fast texting person, you will get frustrated. Just find the letter that the Zio mistakes you typing, and hit the far corner of the button you intend to pres. Works well that way.
Internet speeds for the Zio – using speed test app from android market
upload 700k
download 400k
That is about what I was seeing on T-mobile with their “Edge”.
Reception
At home and at work, my signal fluctuates between no signal, and two bars. but with that said, I received a call from a friend while I had 0 bars and the phone call sounded fine on my end, and the person on the other end never asked me what I was saying. I never heard anything unusual or anything that would hint of a bad signal, other than the caller’s T-mobile lag. Was sad when we both were on T-mobile, neither knew when to talk.
although I find myself back in 2003, holding the sanyo Zio up in the air to get a signal enough to send a text message. I don’t remember Cricket having this bad of a signal.
Back Of The Zio
internet 10/10
software 8/10
hardware 5/10
reception 5/10 (I gave it a poor score then added some because the phone seemed to work even with no signal)
look 10/10
Full Over all Score is 7/10
And that is enough to make me feel as if I got another great deal.
Another unprofessional review from TruXter Tech Review and the budget Tech review
Pretty damn simple.
The one thing most people hate is leaving a message on a recording, or just a simple busy signal, or no answere. What is something that cell phones have that land lines do not have?
Fricken Text messages.
Most phones these days come with caller I.d. on them these days, so the displays are not the issues.
I’m pretty sure that if the text addition was free, it would get used on a really regular basis. Downside is that advertisers would hammer out millions of messages at one time. So there would have to be a fee for the text message add on so it would be illegal to use someone’s privately funded text messages up.
I can only imagen the tiny pc’s people would try and push to sell to accomidate the texting and people with large fingers, and extended message storage for the times when you are away for a while.
It would also have to allow the line to be able to text and call at the same time. This way so the kids don’t hold up the line, and so you can get messages while talking.