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Old 06-09-2013, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Forgey View Post
I've had a couple of txt message scams, don't know how they got my number either
They don't know it's your number and they don't care either. They just run a program to generate SMS messages to whole blocks of numbers in the hope that one sucker will reply. They find ways (probabaly illegal) to send these SMS for free.
Here where the sender pays for SMS you can just ignore them. In places where you pay to receive SMS (IIRC the USA is one) it's probably an offence.
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