Vodacom turning a blind eye on spam?

This is quite interesting for this problem to reach thus far, and it'll be more difficult if still left unattended... which might mean client loss! Hope they fix it soon to avoid unrealiable mailing for customers especially with June 11th around the corner:erm:
 
There should be no problem identifying the source with the RICA regulation coming into being
 
Alastairo said:
There should be no problem identifying the source with the RICA regulation coming into being
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They don't need to identify it...

If they have proof that spam was sent from a SIM card, simply suspend it and don't unblock it until the owner explained what is going on... (Although viruses are a likely cause, which is worsened by people disabling Windows Update on 3G because "data is expensive" (What they don't realize is that the updates is a lot cheaper tham the data used by the crap installing itself via the unpatched security holes))

What RICA IS useful for, is making it harder to replace a suspended SIM card...
 
Much worse than it seems?

A European friend of mine started getting ABSA phishing messages immediately after visiting SA and using a prepaid Vodacom 3G SIM card for Internet access. A coincidence? I think not.

I realize this is a different issue but could it be that traffic on the Vodacom network is leaky as well? My friend might have been using unencrypted IMAP access, so his traffic could perhaps have been sniffed anywhere between SA and home but I do find it quite disconcerting.
 
There was a rumour going around that employees sell numbers to companies (like insurance companies) and they in turn send an sms to the whole lot as advertising.

I would believe that
 
MoHaG said:
Although viruses are a likely cause
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I don't think that its viruses - this seems to be a common misconception. Most of the local scammers don't have the funds or the infrastructure to build big botnets for their phishing scams. A prepaid SIM and a PC are enough to setup a scam operation and it seems to be quite viable if you are a Vodacom customer.
 
I received an SMS (WAP PUSH message) in December and thought it might be a Christmas wish from somebody. Upon opening it, I found myself subscribed to some video download service charging R20 a week. They only deducted
R10 off my account initially before I managed to unsubscribed myself.

This is daylight robbery.I only opened the message. I didn't agree to anything and certainly not to have R20 deducted weekly from my account.
I'm still waiting for feedback and will probably never get any.
This is unacceptable. If 100,000 people received and opened that message this December, that's R1,000,000 stolen.

Vodacom needs to implement a pin of some sort to prevent people from just taking money from your account.

:mad:
 
definately worse than it seems!

The spam and scams coming through to our vodacom numbers have increased marginially since about Oct 2009. Every single day we received mutiple MMS messages with advertising crap or phishing scams. None of our users have signed up to receive these advertising messages. You also obviously have to pay to Opt-out. Ridiculous! :twisted:
 
Just got another one of these and guess what... It comes from a Vodacom 3G user :mad:
 
0rk0 said:
I received an SMS (WAP PUSH message) in December and thought it might be a Christmas wish from somebody. Upon opening it, I found myself subscribed to some video download service charging R20 a week. They only deducted
R10 off my account initially before I managed to unsubscribed myself.

This is daylight robbery.I only opened the message. I didn't agree to anything and certainly not to have R20 deducted weekly from my account.
I'm still waiting for feedback and will probably never get any.
This is unacceptable. If 100,000 people received and opened that message this December, that's R1,000,000 stolen.

Vodacom needs to implement a pin of some sort to prevent people from just taking money from your account.

:mad:
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I agree 100%. This is blatent robbery. Read the latest edition of Noseweek to see what MTN's attitude is. They simply couldn't care less and are not interrested in helping. The reason is simple - they make money out if it!

Just like the reason organisations can charge anything they like when you:
* send them an sms for competitions.
* Call them. A couple of years back some bloke would send you a "Call me" sms. When you called him back the cost of the call was R50 / minute!
 
From my experience Vodacom is also giving away our cellphone numbers to a third party to market their "look4me" and other services.
 
Boycott Vodacom. Terminate your SIM and contract, and take out a new one with CellC.

Forget about porting your number - you might port the problem over as well.
 
The_Librarian said:
Boycott Vodacom. Terminate your SIM and contract, and take out a new one with CellC.

Forget about porting your number - you might port the problem over as well.
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Done (x3 - wife and kids) and mine will be terminated once Telkom 3G is up and running. I'm gatvol of unsolicited sms's from VC numbers.
 
The only spam I get, is on my Vodacom email account, which I have disabled because it's useless. Otherwise, nothing else. :confused:
 
it's tough because switching to mtn won't help because they've got the same attitude. many won't switch to cell c because of their lack of 3G. the only thing that'll help is a class action case against the two SP's and get a body like a consumer protection organisation or the CC to do something about it. god know ICASA can't do shyte.
 
what about MTN? have been receiving sms's similar to the R20 one mentioned earlier
 
I can honestly say that if I receive 1 spam message a month on my MTN number it's a lot.

I have, however, in recent times received a truck load of tele-sales calls from VDC's useless service providers.
I believe that my number was either given out by the place I bought my new car from or from ABSA (that financed said car).
What makes VDC think I would ever even entertain taking one of their numbers again???
 
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