Whenever you avail of any service which sends you an SMS alert,  be aware, there is nothing which prevents the service provide from using your number to spam you.

They keep spamming you with all their new offerings even if you haven’t asked for it. This in in spite of subscribing for DND services.

I have thought of a way around this.

  • Go to the service provider’s web site and find their toll free number. If its not listed on the site, just google for it:)
  • Call them on their toll free number so you don’t pay for the call.
  • Explain to them, taking as much time as you need that you don’t want to receive their SMSes.

Now if they understand simple economics, they will stop the SMSes. If they don’t understand, they will anyways be out of business.Here is how:

Its very cheap for them to send a million SMS but it will be very expensive for them if only 1 percent of these start calling them.

1 Million SMS costs less than Rs 100,000 (at Rs. 0.10 per SMS for bulk SMSes)

10,000 people calling cost Rs. 1,000,000 (even if you take Rs. 100 per call)

The service provide would soon realise that more customers are calling them to complain, the service provider is paying for the call and the service provider’s agents are busy attending to them rather than attending to customers wanting to buy their product and services. They would also lose business as potential customers wouldn’t be able to get through and would be on long holds.

You can’t imagine the effect of team work. If all of us do this, we can bring the biggest spammer to listen to us.

Have started a India Anti Spam Action Group on Facebook, please join if you are interested.