I believe it's a big joke to give fake cell numbers - especially co-workers, but also even wives' or gilfriends'.

The whole idea for the expo was to target the 29-older... it was to encourage woman to make them realise how sexy they are. Pole Dancing and so forth was demonstrated and taught...To make the wife sex up the bedroom...

However I did not get the chance of going...

Give them a bash, you never know what you're missing.

I bumped into you last weekend Bev, remember? (balled oke with two left feet, old blue Ackermans track suit trousers and 80's Gucci wrap-around sunglasses on top of head).

So, has Lolly at long last promoted you to external communications officer at Teasers Midrand, corner of Old PTA Main and Olifantsfontein Roads, Midrand (just behind the Sasol Garage). I guess it pays a lot better than that last stint you did selling ad space for a very popular weekend property TV show, although your ex-boss frequents Midrand shop a lot. Wish he would stop insisting on doing his own voice overs, and he really needs to employ a decent writer now that they have improved their show. Lovely brandinding job they've done. Dig those stripes - very er Paul Smith-ish.

Sorry, can't remember the tel. number for Teasers Midrand, but lunch bookings have become very popular since Mr. Jackson (that's Lolly) "annexed" the parking lot and installed a boomgate to discourage users to stay longer than 5 min. Now consider a scantly clad security officer for the parking lot, that dronkie really annoys me and he gets very agro when you don't slip a 10er every time.

Bev: Suggest to Lol that he paints the new number on his new roof, which he has just also had raised (er, or is that erected).

Very funny, but it still does not solve my dilemma.
Now shopping sales and free entries into rock concerts yea, send them, but Teasers? Come on!

I suspect we can thank Telkom for all this ...

Maybe the ladies that are receiving these SMS should have a closer look at their partners i.e. husbands, boyfriends or girlfrieds - who knows maybe they are passing your cell number on to Teasers!

This is just another form of spam and we should be given the option to unsubscribe. But how do you when you don't even know where all these companies are getting your number from? We need to unsubscribe from the source because it's probable that if we unsubscribe from Teasers, for example, some other compnay will start spamming us.

Hi Guys. There is a website (www.smscode.co.za) that will allow you to enter the number that you received the SMS from (commercial SMS). It will also search to find the service provider and give you the option to unsubscribe from the list, or alternatively, report them for spamming. Unless you have willingly opted in to receive these, you have every right to report them. You also have every right to stop these messages whenever you want!

Our company, www.clickatell.com (mobile data service provder) subscribes to an anti-spam policy for their communication protocols and allows you to report any unsolicited messages straight to us. We also give you the option to either unsubscribe and keep your number unblocked or you can report the offender and have your number blocked so as not to receive any more messages from Clickatell or any of its clients.

Somebody phoned me on my cell from Old Mutual offering me some dodgy products. I asked them where they got my number from and they said Mutual & Federal, of which I was a client about 10 years ago. This sort of cross-trading of databases has become rife and it's time it stopped. I'm pissed off. The only solution is a national Do Not Call list, like the US has.

Try going to this website for more info on how to remove yourself from mailing lists or report unwanted spam:
www.smscode.co.za

I've been reporting SMS spam to SMSCode.co.za for the last year and a bit and I still keep receiving the same useless rubbish.

It's just a placebo so people stop complaining for a small while.

Can we stop being so anal- just delete the sms and move on- no harm done

I agree with "Can we stop being so anal" comment. It's just an sms, there is worse things to bitch and moan about. If you get an sms you are not interested in, simply read it and delete. I'm sure you don't get a 100 of these each day. But I must say being a 25 year old woman myself and receiving a sms from Teasers will make my blood boil a bit! If there should be places like Teasers they should make sure their database is correct. That is, they should make sure they send sms'e to people who's sexual preference are women.

This is just the beginning. Pretty soon it's going to be like email where 70% of messages are unsolicited. It would be nice to have the choice. Maybe you like receiving unwanted crap but I don't.

sure, the weekly sms's from a furniture retailer, various nightclubs etc are irritating, but it's enough to delete them and move on.

however, as a woman who received the Teazers sms, i found it a bit over the top. an establishment selling strippers - "visual viagra" i think they called it - should make sure their data base is accurate.

If you ask me, it's a gross infringement of my privacy.

Where are they getting my number from? Who has no regard for my privacy at all and is willing to sell my number to any company that comes by?

I'm sure we're all aware with what the ECT Act says, if it's unsolicited, it's considered spam and is illegal.

These SMS spams may not bother you, but you are one versus 10 other people that do get bothered by it.

If Teazers did not get your number from you, or a mischievous friend of yours, then it is more than likely a data capturing error.

Depending on which service provider the SMS message came to you through, you can reply to the message with the word STOP to be automatically removed from the database of the sender (in this case Teazers).

Bulksms.com has this feature, and some other companies have it as well. There is talk at WASPA (Wireless Applicaton Service Provider Association) about enforcing the implementation of this feature across all SMS service providers in the future.

Just a question

By replying to SMS spam, you're just reinforcing the fact that the SMS is reaching a valid number.

In any case, I tried replying to SMSs that I received on multiple occasions and they didn't stop.

I eventually phoned the companies involved and threatened them with going to their service providers with a complaint of spam.

Most of them were quite ignorant to the fact that what they were doing can be considered illegal.

The spam gets through to me- but a multimedia sms from a friend with perceived pornographic content doesn't. the message?

"Malicious content removed. Protected by Vodacom"

what an almighty joke, and an offensive intrusion of nanny state thinking into my personal inbox.

They get it from the SA National Consumer Database. Be thankful that you only get SMS-ed. I get calls.