Vodacom Festive Faces SPAM mms!

OK So is it SPAM? or not

Wow did this get out of hand.

OK so is it spam? or if it has OPT OUT in a message (MMS, SMS, EMAIL, etc) it's not SPAM.

I really need to know. :D
 
Why are so many people getting pissed off about receiving these so called spam messages? Just relax :D There are far more important things in this world to worry about.
 
sky.akash said:
Why are so many people getting pissed off about receiving these so called spam messages? Just relax :D There are far more important things in this world to worry about.
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To an extent I agree with the opinions at the beginning of the thread, that there should be an explicit opt-in.

I often get spam smses from Makro, but it's easier to just delete the smses when they arrive than to spend a whole lot of money making calls to Makro to opt-out [although I know that I did opt-in by ticking a paper-checkbox for sms as preferred form of communication], and AFAIK there is no online form which I can use to opt-out, so I've gone for the next best thing - I just don't bother going all the way to any of the Makro stores anymore [Woodmead is not exactly in my area anyways].
 
sky.akash said:
Why are so many people getting pissed off about receiving these so called spam messages? Just relax :D There are far more important things in this world to worry about.
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Like any spam they waste time.
 
sky.akash said:
Why are so many people getting pissed off about receiving these so called spam messages? Just relax :D There are far more important things in this world to worry about.
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Yep, we worry about those things at the same time. If you don't mind spam then by all means contact Vodacom and opt in. We need to have the choice. This argument is about rights.
 
i got 3 of them this morning (faces one) and they were all between 3am and 6am

great

-buddha
 
ic said:
To an extent I agree with the opinions at the beginning of the thread, that there should be an explicit opt-in.

I often get spam smses from Makro, but it's easier to just delete the smses when they arrive than to spend a whole lot of money making calls to Makro to opt-out [although I know that I did opt-in by ticking a paper-checkbox for sms as preferred form of communication], and AFAIK there is no online form which I can use to opt-out, so I've gone for the next best thing - I just don't bother going all the way to any of the Makro stores anymore [Woodmead is not exactly in my area anyways].
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Isn't that great, no wonder vodacom say 99.9% of their userbase is happy with receiveing spam, cause 99.9% of south africans are lazy schmucks
 
I haven't got any yet, is it only being sent to Vodacom SP customers or all Vodacom subscribers?
 
bboy said:
Isn't that great, no wonder vodacom say 99.9% of their userbase is happy with receiveing spam, cause 99.9% of south africans are lazy schmucks
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No, just do what's easier for you, you don't always have to spend half your life proving a point.
 
bboy said:
ic said:
To an extent I agree with the opinions at the beginning of the thread, that there should be an explicit opt-in.

I often get spam smses from Makro, but it's easier to just delete the smses when they arrive than to spend a whole lot of money making calls to Makro to opt-out [although I know that I did opt-in by ticking a paper-checkbox for sms as preferred form of communication], and AFAIK there is no online form which I can use to opt-out, so I've gone for the next best thing - I just don't bother going all the way to any of the Makro stores anymore [Woodmead is not exactly in my area anyways].
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Isn't that great, no wonder vodacom say 99.9% of their userbase is happy with receiveing spam, cause 99.9% of south africans are lazy schmucks
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Thanks for that, I do have better things to do than waste time and money in a losing battle trying to opt-out of the "lazy schmucks" box that you've decided to imprison 99.9% of South Africans in...:rolleyes:

If you really feel so strongly about this, then put your time and money to better use, by lobbying the politicians for legislative changes, to enforce an explicit opt-in or whatever changes you feel will solve the problem, perhaps including a completely free opt-out with no premium rated or 0861 or even 0800 numbers that get charged for when dialling from a cellphone...
 
Seeing as he clearly doesn't place himself in that box maybe he'll volunteer to handle the rest of our opt-out requests. :D
 
Dunno if anyone has mentioned this yet but lol wasn't bothered to read through 7 pages of posts....

I noted that vodacom 3g said that it costs nothing to receive these unsolicited mms's but.....

Don't we all pay for the data received by the phone?!?! and if so this is a nice way for vodacom to make a couple extra million or so by sending this crud to every subscriber over and over and charging us for the data received?!
 
Hades said:
Dunno if anyone has mentioned this yet but lol wasn't bothered to read through 7 pages of posts....

I noted that vodacom 3g said that it costs nothing to receive these unsolicited mms's but.....

Don't we all pay for the data received by the phone?!?! and if so this is a nice way for vodacom to make a couple extra million or so by sending this crud to every subscriber over and over and charging us for the data received?!
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Vodacom has separate network APN settings for MMSes, which means that you would not get charged for receiving an MMS using the de[-]g[/-]fault MMS settings.
 
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ahhh okay...well there goes my consipiracy theory :)
 
I got another message that just says "Message cannot be displayed here" from +7349.

I presume the spammer Elves are hard at work again this Christmas sending us simpleton sheep-like customers silly MMSs.

They're wasting their time because my Vodacom SIM hasn't been near an MMS capable phone for nearly 5 months. I guess that's another cockup on their part too because it should only go to MMS phones.
 
i guess you are going to struggle to opt out of that one then !
 
Skeptik said:
I got another message that just says "Message cannot be displayed here" from +7349.

I presume the spammer Elves are hard at work again this Christmas sending us simpleton sheep-like customers silly MMSs.

They're wasting their time because my Vodacom SIM hasn't been near an MMS capable phone for nearly 5 months. I guess that's another cockup on their part too because it should only go to MMS phones.
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AFAIK your service Provider should have the option to change you from receiving this kind of Spam and if you opt to then they can have you added to their list.

Maybe just check with your service provider.
 
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