how to block a number?

[wizdumb]

is it possible to block a number, as i am getting text msgs from the 1st company i worked for, about meetings, health days etc - and there is no opt out option. although i have sms'ed "stop", "opt out", "go away" etc to the number with no success...

...phoning hr was also fruitless

[edit] sorry i realise now this is the wrong place to post this topic, please move if needed

 

[.Froot.]

No it's not possible. Only thing you can do is go to the police. I've tried this. Otherwise you can go the .... other route....

 

[vodacom3g]

is it possible to block a number, as i am getting text msgs from the 1st company i worked for, about meetings, health days etc - and there is no opt out option. although i have sms'ed "stop", "opt out", "go away" etc to the number with no success...

...phoning hr was also fruitless

[edit] sorry i realise now this is the wrong place to post this topic, please move if needed

Send them a letter instructing them to stop.

Advise them they're in breach of the ECT Act and quote this bit at them:

Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002

Unsolicited goods, services or communications

45.(1) Any person who sends unsolicited commercial communications to consumers, must provide the consumer

(a) with the option to cancel his or her subscription to the mailing list of that person; and

(b) with the identifying particulars of the source from which that person obtained the consumer's personal information, on request of the consumer.

(2) No agreement is concluded where a consumer has failed to respond to an unsolicited communication.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with or contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to the penalties prescribed in section 89(1).

(4) Any person who sends unsolicited commercial communications to a person who has advised the sender that such communications are unwelcome, is guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to the penalties prescribed in section 89(1).

 

[Antonf]

You can also install Handy Blacklist. The older versions block SMS as well as calls.

 

[wizdumb]

a bit too extreme for me too call the police...

...i would send them that ECT act, but the problem, too where do i send it.

but wait i am off to find antonf's suggestion...............