Comments on: sms.ac are evil…

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:50:36 +0000

DO NOT sign up to this website! Once you have signed up (like i stupidly did) they bombard you with texts that cost about 50p a time saying that (for instance) ‘ajay is inviting you to be his friend see him at sms.ac/nameofperson . STOP? text STOP FRND to 85021′ but when you text to that number it doesn’t stop. They carry on sending you texts. IT IS ROBBERY! I didn’t ask for these messages and yet I have to pay for them! I have recently deleted my account but we’ll wait and see if it works!

By: Jeremy Pepper

Jeremy Pepper — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 04:08:08 +0000

Well, they are looking for a VP of PR – maybe this will be the first thing to fix on his/her agenda.

With good PR, comes good community relations. Or, at least you hope.

By: Mike Bourne

Mike Bourne — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 04:59:15 +0000

I’ve been getting invites to their site “from” WIll for months now. Very disturbing.

By: George

George — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:13:15 +0000

I get like a spam to sign up every couple of weeks. Those bastards. Now I just blacklist their email address.

By: Vinnie Garcia

Vinnie Garcia — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:38:55 +0000

I get spam from them at least twice a week. Nowadays it’s deleted straight from the server.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:36:43 +0000

Is it possible to put a voodoo curse on an internet entity???

By: Amit Gupta

Amit Gupta — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:05:31 +0000

there’s only one thing to do when you get an eMail from SMS.ac, select it & click the “SPAM” button(or JUNK button depending on your email application). They send out emails regularly to those in their mailing list & never stop, I get an eMail from them every 1 week or so, but it just ends up in my Bulk Mail folder, never cluttering my Inbox any more!!

By: Brandon Erik Bertelsen

Brandon Erik Bertelsen — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:00:30 +0000

That’s…. just…. wrong. A bit creepy too.

Did you ever follow up with sms.ac? I wouldn’t even hazard to give my email address to those people.

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:23:39 +0000

Whoops, forgot to include the link to the discussion about SMS.ac: http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2005/04/03/scam-spam-or-fun-sms.sc

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:22:21 +0000

There is a pretty lengthy discussion of SMS.ac and their practices over at my site, MobileTracker. Seems like a lot of people are in agreement with you on this one. I haven’t signed up before because of everything I have heard about it, but they claim to have 40 million registered members (I don’t believe that!).

Also a lot of people have told me that they abuse billing for premium SMS messages. For example you can be a part of a group and each time you get a message (from let’s say one of the 1000 people in the group) you get charged a quarter. So they make $250 for each message sent… But the bad part is these ex-employees I have talked to said they were paid to send fake messages and thus make more money for SMS.ac! Incredible!

It’s really an interesting read to learn about these guys, I would suggest heading over to RipOffReport.com and check out their articles on them.