Hi to all,

Firstly can i say thank you to everyone for such a very helpful website?

Secondly, i don't know if this is in the right place, but it is regarding some strange messages i am getting on home landline phone. Recently i am getting some text messages when i answer the phone, and the automated message i get says that i have a text message, and when i listen it just says the message is blank.

Recently i had i think four of them on the number 07953 966066, then a couple on 07722 182917. Then i got another message a few minutes later saying that if i want to stop these messages i have to phone 01795 3966 (i missed hearing the last number said)

Does anyone have an idea what these are about please?

Many thanks.

sherbert wrote on Aug 28^th, 2009 at 12:10pm:


Looking at this site it appears that there is some persistent misuse of a telephone network or service going on here, in that people are being caused unnecessary inconvenience, annoyance or anxiety.

This should therefore be matter for Ofcom to deal with, using its powers under sections 128-131. There is no on-line complaints procedure to deal with such cases, so it is probably best to contact Ofcom directly.

Hi to all,

Many thanks for the replies and the help.

Dave.

My phone line is with Virgin Media, and i will be investigating if the text feature can be turned off on my phone line.

Regards.

Gary

Gazza wrote on Aug 28^th, 2009 at 7:44pm:

I'm not familiar with Virgin Media's service. A quick search reveals this page on using a landline for SMS texting:

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/telephone/virgin-media-text.php

Also, VM Phone Guide booklet:

http://www.virginmedia.com/customers/pdf/phone-user-guides/main-guide.pdf

These say that the 0800 587 5252 number from a VM line to turn off the service, just as you would from a BT one. 

Hi,

I have used the information as supplied by Sherbert, and the option i had to choose was 5 for stopping all texts. Because the other options (1 to 4) were for something about curfew choices. And it did surprise me as well, because it was a BT service, that was enabling them to be sent to me.

I must thank you all for the excellent help and quick responses to my questions. As this problem has been bugging me for some months now, and i thought that i would never get rid of it.

Gary