Escom SMS alerts - how to turn off?

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Abe53

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Good morning MyBroadband Forumites. I would understand an Escom employee not willing to admit such here,
but could one perhaps PM me the contact number of the (likely out contracted) entity running Escom SMS alerts?
These alerts come in at all hours of the night and I would not mind receiving if it affects us, but mostly they pertain to other lines, while our line still works. The alerts used to mention the line which is down, but lately they do not. The reference number keeps changing with every SMS. I suspect the sender gets paid for each SMS sent and thus sends willy-nilly. A license to take money out of Escom's account. (Which is ultimately the taxpayers pocket.)
"Eskom Ref 921005462 We are currently experiencing a technical fault...... "
 
It's Eskom. I wasn't even aware they send out alerts. Sure its not a 3rd party?
 
saor said:
It's Eskom. I wasn't even aware they send out alerts. Sure its not a 3rd party?
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Might be that he reported an outage, much like JHB Water does when it occasionally sends out outages for people who've logged faults in and around an area.
 
Thanks for the correction, Saor. The k in Eskom used to refer to "Elektrisiteits Voorsienings Kommissie" when it still was Evkom and it still "voorsiend" I now usually spell it Eksdom...
I thought of blocking the sender number when it does not affect us, but the reported sending number changes with every SMS.
 
Abe53 said:
Good morning MyBroadband Forumites. I would understand an Escom employee not willing to admit such here,
but could one perhaps PM me the contact number of the (likely out contracted) entity running Escom SMS alerts?
These alerts come in at all hours of the night and I would not mind receiving if it affects us, but mostly they pertain to other lines, while our line still works. The alerts used to mention the line which is down, but lately they do not. The reference number keeps changing with every SMS. I suspect the sender gets paid for each SMS sent and thus sends willy-nilly. A license to take money out of Escom's account. (Which is ultimately the taxpayers pocket.)
"Eskom Ref 921005462 We are currently experiencing a technical fault...... "
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You think that's bad, I keep getting SMS notification from them that's meant for one of their contractors.
Dunno how they could **** that up, they should have rather mistakenly used my Bank details for payments to the Contractor, but noooooo, some **** put my Cell number for notifications instead.
 
Call and SMS Blocker has a function to block SMS containing keywords.
 
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