Incoming telephone spam

I now received spam on my phone too! I was sitting here working on my thesis when I heard the phone rang in the living room. It immidiately stopped, and there was a WAP Push message in my inbox. Obviously, the ringing was only for getting attention. The message said: 3 FREE Ringtones! and the url for the message is http://no.widelive.com/index.wml?cp=17

Obviously, if I go to the address stated I will be downloading something (I do not trust it to be ringtones, and I'm not that interested in it either). Is this the new way of spamming people? I have never heard of this kind of spam before.

Btw: The number the call came from is: +911815011829

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2 Responses to “Incoming telephone spam”


  1. 1 Jackie Dec 15th, 2006 at 10:33 am

    I too received this odd message and tried to find the site but it would not come up. failed search. I wonder now, what can it do? Retrieve all my info from my phone and what can we do to stop receiving these messages?

  2. 2 Geir-Tore Lindsve Dec 15th, 2006 at 11:09 am

    My thoughts of what it can do are either:
    1. It might be just a dummy download, but which will cost $$$ on your mobile account.
    2. It might be some software which phones somewhere and by that cost $$$ on your mobile account.
    3. Phone somewhere and upload address book information.

    Anyhow, it would be wise to not go to the URL by using a mobile phone.

    Not much to do to avoid getting these messages, I’m afraid.

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