Wow! It's really that easy? I'd get ready to see a lot of this. They
couldn't have made it easier for spammers - seqential numbers? What could be
simpler?
Chris
-- "sean p. horan" <sean@telconnect.net> wrote:
> Couple things,
>
> You can email any voicestream phone simply by trying something along the
> lines of 4805703646@voicestream.net. Different cell phone providers own
> different prefixes...I dunno what your phone number is, but I'm sure
> it's quite easy to figure out what service owns what specific prefix and
> write a for loop that simply mails anyone in {480,602}-570-xxxx, and
> suddenly you've beeped 10,000 people with your spam. This is probably
> what happened to you.
>
> On a more ornery note, I think we have to realize that spam is rather
> inevitable, and it doesn't do a whole lot of good to get all flustered
> about it. Come on folks, don't let people live rent free in your mind.
> Moreover, when one writes and complains about spam to 2,000 people and
> then a discussion pops up about it, you've effectively passed that
> original annoyance on a hundred-thousand fold. Unless this spammer
> flooded your mailbox with a thousand messages and you're paying to
> recieve each one that goes in over your limit, I think it's probably
> best to just pass it off as one of those assholic things that some
> people have a tendency to do.
>
> just my $0.02 and an overly candid attitude,
>
> --sean
>
> Matt Clark wrote:
> >
> > Group,
> >
> > I received my first SPAM to my digital phone today. It appeared as a test
> > message addressed to me and mentioned how I could get low mortgage rates.
> > This seemed to upset me far more than SPAM email. My question is this. Is
> > my carrier selling my number or is this a number game through software?
> >
> > Any ideas or info would be appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Matt Clark
> > RNi
> > 480-344-3144
> >
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