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[sleuth13]

[META]im receiving spamtexts and telemarketing calls after -

[SusanTX]

 Phone spam

[Phaedra]

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[Helioex]

Spyware?

[sleuth13]

thanks for the info guys. im sure its not spyware, i scan for those regularly using adaware, spybot, and the best scanner yet (though i only recently started using it), superantispyware, which found 20+regsitry items that the other 2 had missed. i highly recommend it for free spyware protection.

as far as the game, i never called andy's phone, nor did i sign up for texts and/or calls from christina. i did however, include my phone number when i registered for the game. silly me, i figured they would need my # in case i won the 25,000 grand. little did i know what was to become of the game.

funny thing is, i found this site when i was doing a legitimate search for info about "andrew goodis". at that point there was only an initial thread here (at page 2 of eventually 87), not a subsection for the SMH game. the whole thing was so fresh in fact that i was the 13th viewer of sonia's blog. anyway, that first night i found this site, the people here had already gotten to day 7 and were working on day 8.

in a way this site kind of stole the intrigue of the game for me, but thanks to this site i found that the game wasnt designed very well and a bit lame to be honest. so i didnt invest alot of time in the actual game because there wasnt really much there to figure out. i thought it would be a complex and realistic mystery, but it turned out to be pretty straightforward and more of a sweepstakes than an actual kidnapping mystery.

anyhow, as far as the spamtexts, the one i managed to save was from www/wishsoftware/com, and the phone call came from 800-310-5479 . i looked up that number and found this:

http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-310-5479

so i dont know if it is or isNt related to me registering for the game. the website that text me (wishsoftware) is really strange, cuz after checking their site, i found that they are in scotland. so why and or how they got my usa phone number is quite perplexing.

[visionofangels]

Re: [META]im receiving spamtexts and telemarketing calls after -

[NYwizard]

Re: [META]im receiving spamtexts and telemarketing calls after -

[sleuth13]

i hear ya vision. the thing is i wouldNt be very concerned if i was receiving spam email(s), but im alarmed that my cellphone number has been given out to retailers/spammers. of course i have no proof, just a suspicion, and thats why i wanted to check around to see if these phonetextmsgs were unqiue to me, or if others had received them as well.

for now i think i can rule out the call from the 800#, since it seems to come from verizon (my cell provider). but i have NEVER received any spam text msgs before, ever. verizon sends me a few account-related texts occasionally, and since they have my phone number, i dont freak out.

but when i see random oustiders suddenly reaching my cell phone, im worried about where they got my number, and who else now has access to that source. i rarely if ever give out my cell number anywhere, especially to businesses (i always use an outdated old landline number for retailers). so thats why im a bit mystified/intrigued, but also slightly preturbed.




NYwizrd- thats exactly what im worried about. i included personal info about myself when registering for this game, and i dont want that info floating around in an unprotected and unofficial cyberspace.

[The Grinder]

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