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Hi there, this is the first I time I got a Flash SMS message, how do I block and report the sender Impala Cash Loans? If I go into the SMS Toolkit, it does nothing. It says: IMPALA Cash offer Loan at 6% interest rate with no Credit check Blacklisted also Whatsap or call 0739476748 visit our...

Is there nobody in Vodacom that understands that some people hate the "free" rubbish the keep pushing? Summer deals Vodabucks Loans Advances Their App which is essential in managing your mobile usages is 70% Spam and Trash nonsense. The cellphone provider that offers an adfree option would...

We have 2 shared cpanel server's that suddenly can send mail to and gmail account without getting rejected by google. We get the below message: [email protected] host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [142.250.27.27] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550-5.7.25...

Is your Gmail spam protection acting strange? Gmail spam protection has always been top notch but lately, it would repeatedly place mail from a certain sender in spam even after reporting not spam. Also would let obvious spam land in the inbox. Is anyone else having this issue?

Elon Musk cannot simply back out of Twitter deal Elon Musk formally and forcefully revived his assertion that Twitter Inc. has a serious bot problem, and threatened to walk away from his deal to buy the company if the social network doesn’t do more to prove its users are real people. Legal...

Spam law can't protect South Africans from phone marketers South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) doesn't protect you from marketers who contact you telephonically unless you explicitly tell them to stop calling you. This is because POPIA doesn't include phone marketing...

Hi Everyone We have been using Google Workspace for our company emails. Since the first week of Jan 2022, one of the businesses in our group (an insurance broker) has been having issues with most emails going to client and vendor spam folders. Due to the nature of the business, this is causing...

Hi there I have a cheap spare chinese android phone (Invens) from takealot. There are apps on it, some of which shows ads on the homescreen and notifications, that reinstall themselves after uninstalling them. Names are like Loosen CPU, Smart CPU and Beautiful something. Any idea how to rid...

Checking my mails this morning, I see two mails from Revix. Strange as I'd never heard of them, much less used them. First one was a 'confirm your email address', second was a sign-up bonus/welcome email. Both are from [email protected], so it doesn't appear to be a phishing attack. I did not...

Up to now there haven't been any official restrictions at my org. I have two users out of about 70 who get spammed because their email addresses were compromised in breaches where they'd registered with their work accounts, but fortunately that's the worst of it. It seems that the standard...

Anti-spam entries in the national opt-out database expires after 3 years If you last registered your details in the National Opt-Out Database more than three years ago, your registration has lapsed and registered direct marketers in South Africa are allowed to contact you. The National Opt-Out...

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, not sure where to post it. Anyone know anything about who these people are who are selling South African spam lists? I rather doubt these are all opt-in. Are these guys responsible for much of our spam in South Africa? Is it legal for them to be openly...

Yesterday I received a strange phone call which I realised was a scam/spam along the way. It involved this guy who somehow got my info (I know it happens a lot, but still) and saw I was trading on a trading website. Now I'll be honest, the phone call was annoying and loud, and the person was...

My mom has been trying for weeks to unsubscribe from a daily service which charges R5/day. She's followed the unsubscribe process, called Vodacom who all but help - basically telling her its her problem, and she must unsubscribe. They're now staying with me for Christmas, and asked me to have...

Hi all, Is there a place (that actually use the info provided) to list local email spammers?

South Africa's spam mail CEO is "untraceable" Over the last few months, we have covered the exploits of South African search engine Web9 and its CEO, Shingi Mushipe. Mushipe's endeavours included a daily spam email blast advertising his search engine, which was sent to recipients whose email...

Hi guys, If this post is in the wrong area, I am sorry, please advise or move it to a different area. I have a client who is a client of WebAfrica. He recently started having a issue with his email. He has this issue on his phone and on this PC via Outlook and Thunderbird. I have his mail...

Dear @Newsfeed (cc @rpm and @Jan ), I have a suggestion for an article with proof in support of my claim that MTN does not tolerate customers unsubscribing from their spam. You recently did an article where the networks denied nefariously cashing in on WASP fraud. That got me thinking about...

I have a MTN prepaid SIM, and get Powerball SMS spam almost daily. Their opt-out does not work; I have tried twice to opt out, but the SMSs keep coming, from different numbers. I need advice on how to get rid of this. I did stop the other recharge SMSes with the *130*603# Is this type of spam...

Is anyone else getting huge amounts of spam from iSAT recently. I have many different email addresses and am getting the same spam nonsense on all of them, they've obviously picked up all my email addresses recently. You cannot reply to their spam email and they don't have a support email...