Text Message Spam ... As Fast As I Can Activate

My current job requires me to work with a lot of PDA Phones. As such, I'm frequently activating / deactivating them. Sometimes I keep the devices for a while ... other times they are just test accounts. I've noticed two annoying things lately ... getting telemarketing calls right after I activated the phones ... and also text message spam, once again right after activating.

Look at the bitmap above. This phone was full of text message spam the day after I activated it. I hadn't even had a chance to use it for anything! In fact, the phone was being used for battery testing, so I wasn't even actively using it.

It's ridiculous. Thankfully, these aren't being used for anything critical, but I can't believe spammer are getting these numbers (or more likely, randomly generating them) ... I mean, the messages came in right after activation, so they must have been trying them even when the accounts didn't exist. Ugh.

Tags: Spam, text message