Serious matter - your advice please?
Aug 23rd 2007, 1:06 pm
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Re: Serious matter - your advice please?
If I had pressed charges they would have been deported (but I was warned that I'd also have to go to court/station many times - so decided against it). Yes, they take this quite seriously here.
Aug 23rd 2007, 1:38 pm
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Re: Serious matter - your advice please?
Contact Etisalat, I work in the mobile industry and they can stop this. It is likely to be mass spamming i.e. foreign companies (Russia, India etc) find 'holes' in the network and send bulk 'marketing messages' to, not just you, but thousands of subscribers. The messages are likely to come from parties operating outside the UAE and they are trying to get you to call back their number (premium rate) and they basically cream the profit from these inadvertant calls. There really is nothing to owrry about, however, contact Etislat and tell that this is happening as there are applications that they can buy to stop this (I sell them!!
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Hoep this puts your worries to rest.
Twisty
). Hoep this puts your worries to rest.
Twisty
The number it was sent from was a UAE mobile (no attempt to hide that fact), so I'm sure the necessary steps can be taken.
Thank you all but I've decided to be a big brave Hector and sort this out all by my big self......
NOW I ORDER YOU TO END THIS THREAD AND GO AWAY AND TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE INTERESTING OR AMUSING - AND THANKS INDEED TO THOSE WHO POSTED HELPFUL STUFF........
.....AND OF COURSE TO CONFUCIUS WHO RECOMMENDED I JUST DIVE IN AND AVAIL MYSELF OF THE SERVICES ON OFFER.
Aug 23rd 2007, 1:42 pm
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Aug 23rd 2007, 1:50 pm
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Re: Serious matter - your advice please?
Aug 24th 2007, 7:44 am
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Re: Serious matter - your advice please?
Dean, the sound you pick up on the radio when your phone is nearby is the system broadcasting to and from the cells to discover how to route calls to and from your phone. Your phone identifies itself and that goes into the system so that it can route a call when one comes in for you. It is a broadcast and your number can be picked up from it. In London you get barraged (?) by them as you gpo through Soho. Once you are clocked then general texts can be sent to you (even from email editors) hence your email.
Advise to tell who you want. It is an assault on your phone number and not on you. The message is marginal, the misuse of data is probably illegal, you have done nothing wrong and you don't have to avail yourself of the service.
What might be interesting is to see what happens if you reply - you either get the whores, or more likely you get a ten pounds a second premium line in central america!!
For all is not what it seems!!
Advise to tell who you want. It is an assault on your phone number and not on you. The message is marginal, the misuse of data is probably illegal, you have done nothing wrong and you don't have to avail yourself of the service.
What might be interesting is to see what happens if you reply - you either get the whores, or more likely you get a ten pounds a second premium line in central america!!
For all is not what it seems!!
Aug 24th 2007, 9:17 am
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Dean, the sound you pick up on the radio when your phone is nearby is the system broadcasting to and from the cells to discover how to route calls to and from your phone. Your phone identifies itself and that goes into the system so that it can route a call when one comes in for you. It is a broadcast and your number can be picked up from it. In London you get barraged (?) by them as you gpo through Soho. Once you are clocked then general texts can be sent to you (even from email editors) hence your email.
Advise to tell who you want. It is an assault on your phone number and not on you. The message is marginal, the misuse of data is probably illegal, you have done nothing wrong and you don't have to avail yourself of the service.
What might be interesting is to see what happens if you reply - you either get the whores, or more likely you get a ten pounds a second premium line in central america!!
For all is not what it seems!!
Advise to tell who you want. It is an assault on your phone number and not on you. The message is marginal, the misuse of data is probably illegal, you have done nothing wrong and you don't have to avail yourself of the service.
What might be interesting is to see what happens if you reply - you either get the whores, or more likely you get a ten pounds a second premium line in central america!!
For all is not what it seems!!
Had no idea about nearly 95 pct of what you have written.
Many thanks.
Aug 24th 2007, 1:37 pm
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Re: Serious matter - your advice please?
Sir, Your use of the pluperfect tense suggests that I have educated you. Pity you have not learned to be polite. That only reflect on you though.
Aug 24th 2007, 1:44 pm
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Let me rephrase.....
Your post was intelligent and informative (I'm writing seriously, not sarcastically). I found about 95% of what you wrote to be new information to me. I thanked you for it.
Most of the other responses were by comparison shallow or unhelpful. And still nobody was able to answer the main question I asked, but at least you explained how the texts arrive. Thank you.
PS: "Had" is not pluperfect - "Had had" is pluperfect. I only omitted the "I" in my original post.
Aug 24th 2007, 1:50 pm
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Re: Serious matter - your advice please?
[QUOTE=The Dean;5230251]What do you mean - not polite? God I'm getting some stick round here lately - anyone out there with moral support? (BC? Okto? Conf? Help!)
So glad you are not asking me for support...
So glad you are not asking me for support...
Aug 24th 2007, 2:08 pm
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My apologies MH - since you say you only noticed me for the first time yesterday, I assume you wouldn't have oiffered it.........?
Aug 24th 2007, 2:14 pm
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Re: Serious matter - your advice please?
[QUOTE=MataHari;5230273
So glad you are not asking me for support...[/QUOTE]
Nor me ...
So glad you are not asking me for support...[/QUOTE]
Nor me ...