208-219-6967
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 | Ritch 2012-10-11 20:46:15 Unknown |
Got the same lame message to got to "bestbuyprizes.net" to win 1000 registered owners are:
Domain name: bestbuyprizes.net
Registrant Contact:
Samir Kocchar ()
Fax:
F32 Ramdev Nagar
Kamatipura
Baroda, gujarat 390009
IN
Administrative Contact:
Samir Kocchar ()
+91.9099288233
Fax: +1.5555555555
F32 Ramdev Nagar
Kamatipura
Baroda, gujarat 390009
IN
Technical Contact:
Samir Kocchar ()
+91.9099288233
Fax: +1.5555555555
F32 Ramdev Nagar
Kamatipura
Baroda, gujarat 390009
IN
Domain name: bestbuyprizes.net
Registrant Contact:
Samir Kocchar ()
Fax:
F32 Ramdev Nagar
Kamatipura
Baroda, gujarat 390009
IN
Administrative Contact:
Samir Kocchar ()
+91.9099288233
Fax: +1.5555555555
F32 Ramdev Nagar
Kamatipura
Baroda, gujarat 390009
IN
Technical Contact:
Samir Kocchar ()
+91.9099288233
Fax: +1.5555555555
F32 Ramdev Nagar
Kamatipura
Baroda, gujarat 390009
IN
| meliaflint 2012-10-11 17:47:02 Unknown |
I also received the same text that I've won and to go to BestBuy.com and to enter code 4787...I have Sprint, so glad I found this.
| ron 2012-10-10 17:46:25 Unknown |
text message from 2082196967. you won a bestbuy 1000 dollar gift card. go to http://bestbuyprizes.net/ use code 4787 to claim prize.
| ron 2012-10-10 17:42:32 Unknown |
same.... sprint
| Peter O 2012-10-10 17:01:09 Unknown |
I just got the massage too on Virgin Mobile. They also use the Sprint network.
| JYL 2012-10-10 12:53:20 Unknown |
I too have Sprint. The text woke me up at 4:30 AM. I was not a happy camper when I saw this junk message and then had to struggle to get back to sleep!
| UGH 2012-10-10 09:45:27 Unknown |
Same deal, 4:45 AM, Sprint.
| jmm 2012-10-09 14:20:59 Unknown |
0645, same message, and of course, Sprint
| Brittany 2012-10-09 12:46:00 Unknown |
Received this message at 2:18 this morning. Also a Sprint customer. Same exact wording and everything. Glad I did some research.
| Alfalfa 2012-10-08 13:01:31 Unknown |
Lesley-Ann Thompson?s cell phone buzzed the other week with a text message telling her she had won a $1,000 gift card from Best Buy.
?It said my entry had won, and I knew I hadn?t entered anything,? said Thompson, who was sharing late-morning conversation with a friend at Alon?s Bakery and Market in Dunwoody.
Best Buy had nothing to do with the text message, the contest or the alleged gift card. The whole thing was a fraud, as confirmed by Thompson?s fiance. He searched online and discovered a list of responses from people that said they had received a similar message on their mobile phones.
?It didn?t surprise me, actually,? Thompson said.
But some consumers may be lured in by what seems like free money. They open an attached link or call the number included in the message. After following a few prompts, someone has their financial or personal information as well as the ability to steal money from them.
As more people buy Smartphones, the opportunity for scams becomes more attractive. Mobile phone consumers received 1.5 billion text spam messages in 2008, for example. In 2011, that figure shot up to 4.5 billion text spam messages, according to Ferris Research, a market research firm that tracks mobile spam.
While striking, those numbers are significantly less than one percent of all text messages that go out, said Lance Skelly, spokesman for Atlanta-based AT&T Mobility, the nation?s No. 2 wireless carrier.
Text spamming is illegal, but that?s not stopping spammers, who typically start by sending out tens of thousands of messages at once. Most use a computer to generate millions of mobile phone number combinations, hoping even a fraction of those numbers are working and that someone will respond.
Skelly at AT&T Mobility warned of recent scams such as one that emerged after Hurricane Isaac. Customers reported receiving text spam messages saying they had qualified for public assistance to recover from storm damage.
?Most people would probably figure out it?s not a legitimate website,? he said. ?Sometimes these messages prey on people who are having a hard time and who are in a real need.?
Mobile phone companies are trying to fight back with a combination of internal security measures and by asking customers to aggressively report spam messages to their wireless carrier.
Security company Cloudmark created a spam messaging reporting service that nation?s major wireless carriers agreed earlier this year to start using. Now, customers of AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint and others can forward their text spam message to 7726. The mobile phone carrier will ask customers for the phone number that?s linked to the spam message so they and Cloudmark can start investigating.
?Whenever [a spam message] comes to you, it doesn?t mean you shouldn?t say anything to anybody,? said Jeff Blyskal, a senior editor at Consumer Reports magazine.
Two federal laws ban text spam in most instances. A few cases have made it to the courts. Last year the Federal Trade Commission settled a case against an alleged spammer accused of sending unsolicited commercial messages pitching mortgage modification services to consumers. The man also was accused of misrepresenting that he was affiliated with a government agency.
Christine Todaro, an attorney with the FTC, said customer complaints were ?pivotal? in prosecuting the case. The man was banned from sending future text messages as part of the settlement reached.
Not every text message from a retailer, mobile phone company or service provider is spam. But companies are prohibited by federal law from sending out messages unless a customer gives an ?OK,? which is usually by signing up online or in a store.
?If something doesn?t look right, look into it,? said Kate Jay, an Atlanta-area spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless.
If a message instructs you to type ?STOP,? saying you won?t get any more texts, the opposite is true. Sending ?STOP? only confirms that the mobile phone number is a working one. At the very least, ignore the text spam message, though experts point out that doesn?t help track down the source.
Customers who are attached to their Smartphones, frequently making sure they haven?t missed a text message, phone call or email, become a captive audience for spammers. If a consumer gets a text message purporting to be from a store they frequent or from their bank, they are more likely to think the message is a valid one. This means the chances of that person responding to the spam message have gone up significantly.
?That?s the common misperception: people think that this is targeted to them personally. That someone has their number, and that it?s really meant for them,? said Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at Cloudmark, a San Fransisco-based firm that provides messaging security for major wireless carriers.
Going to the website to redeem that too good to be true offer or calling the number listed in the text spam message to what you think is your bank may seem innocent enough. But then customers are asked to give their account login and password. Or, they could be asked to hand over credit card information, the card?s security code and their social security number.
?And so now you?re giving some stranger your username and password to your bank information, and then they can log in and do whatever they want,? said Blyskal at Consumer Reports.
In cases where customers willingly give up their credit card and other personal and financial information, those numbers end up being sold to other cybercriminals.
For customers who have limited data plans or who are charged per text message, receiving several text spam messages a month can be costly. Spam messages that include audio, videos or photos can cost even more for customers who don?t have data plans.
[Text spam] is illegal for a reason, it costs people money,? Skelly at AT&T Mobility said.
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/text-spam-messages-on-the-rise/nSW3C/
?It said my entry had won, and I knew I hadn?t entered anything,? said Thompson, who was sharing late-morning conversation with a friend at Alon?s Bakery and Market in Dunwoody.
Best Buy had nothing to do with the text message, the contest or the alleged gift card. The whole thing was a fraud, as confirmed by Thompson?s fiance. He searched online and discovered a list of responses from people that said they had received a similar message on their mobile phones.
?It didn?t surprise me, actually,? Thompson said.
But some consumers may be lured in by what seems like free money. They open an attached link or call the number included in the message. After following a few prompts, someone has their financial or personal information as well as the ability to steal money from them.
As more people buy Smartphones, the opportunity for scams becomes more attractive. Mobile phone consumers received 1.5 billion text spam messages in 2008, for example. In 2011, that figure shot up to 4.5 billion text spam messages, according to Ferris Research, a market research firm that tracks mobile spam.
While striking, those numbers are significantly less than one percent of all text messages that go out, said Lance Skelly, spokesman for Atlanta-based AT&T Mobility, the nation?s No. 2 wireless carrier.
Text spamming is illegal, but that?s not stopping spammers, who typically start by sending out tens of thousands of messages at once. Most use a computer to generate millions of mobile phone number combinations, hoping even a fraction of those numbers are working and that someone will respond.
Skelly at AT&T Mobility warned of recent scams such as one that emerged after Hurricane Isaac. Customers reported receiving text spam messages saying they had qualified for public assistance to recover from storm damage.
?Most people would probably figure out it?s not a legitimate website,? he said. ?Sometimes these messages prey on people who are having a hard time and who are in a real need.?
Mobile phone companies are trying to fight back with a combination of internal security measures and by asking customers to aggressively report spam messages to their wireless carrier.
Security company Cloudmark created a spam messaging reporting service that nation?s major wireless carriers agreed earlier this year to start using. Now, customers of AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint and others can forward their text spam message to 7726. The mobile phone carrier will ask customers for the phone number that?s linked to the spam message so they and Cloudmark can start investigating.
?Whenever [a spam message] comes to you, it doesn?t mean you shouldn?t say anything to anybody,? said Jeff Blyskal, a senior editor at Consumer Reports magazine.
Two federal laws ban text spam in most instances. A few cases have made it to the courts. Last year the Federal Trade Commission settled a case against an alleged spammer accused of sending unsolicited commercial messages pitching mortgage modification services to consumers. The man also was accused of misrepresenting that he was affiliated with a government agency.
Christine Todaro, an attorney with the FTC, said customer complaints were ?pivotal? in prosecuting the case. The man was banned from sending future text messages as part of the settlement reached.
Not every text message from a retailer, mobile phone company or service provider is spam. But companies are prohibited by federal law from sending out messages unless a customer gives an ?OK,? which is usually by signing up online or in a store.
?If something doesn?t look right, look into it,? said Kate Jay, an Atlanta-area spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless.
If a message instructs you to type ?STOP,? saying you won?t get any more texts, the opposite is true. Sending ?STOP? only confirms that the mobile phone number is a working one. At the very least, ignore the text spam message, though experts point out that doesn?t help track down the source.
Customers who are attached to their Smartphones, frequently making sure they haven?t missed a text message, phone call or email, become a captive audience for spammers. If a consumer gets a text message purporting to be from a store they frequent or from their bank, they are more likely to think the message is a valid one. This means the chances of that person responding to the spam message have gone up significantly.
?That?s the common misperception: people think that this is targeted to them personally. That someone has their number, and that it?s really meant for them,? said Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at Cloudmark, a San Fransisco-based firm that provides messaging security for major wireless carriers.
Going to the website to redeem that too good to be true offer or calling the number listed in the text spam message to what you think is your bank may seem innocent enough. But then customers are asked to give their account login and password. Or, they could be asked to hand over credit card information, the card?s security code and their social security number.
?And so now you?re giving some stranger your username and password to your bank information, and then they can log in and do whatever they want,? said Blyskal at Consumer Reports.
In cases where customers willingly give up their credit card and other personal and financial information, those numbers end up being sold to other cybercriminals.
For customers who have limited data plans or who are charged per text message, receiving several text spam messages a month can be costly. Spam messages that include audio, videos or photos can cost even more for customers who don?t have data plans.
[Text spam] is illegal for a reason, it costs people money,? Skelly at AT&T Mobility said.
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/text-spam-messages-on-the-rise/nSW3C/
| Ive 2012-10-08 13:00:08 Unknown |
I just got the same message at 8:48am..couple of minutes ago... and also Im a Sprint user
| Jk 2012-10-07 12:22:09 Unknown |
Needless to say this is trash. But interesting, I am also a sprint user.Could it be sprint has found another way to scam money from its subscribers? Selling your phone numbers??????. Do Not Respond to Ad.................
| lok 2012-10-07 03:52:48 Unknown |
I got boost, which runs off sprint, of course. Same deal.
| paul jr 2012-10-06 20:44:24 Unknown |
i just received this message and i also have sprint... "Your entry last month WON! Go to http://bestbuyprizes.net and enter code 4787 to claim your FREE $1000 Best Buy Gift Card within 24 hours!" i received it at 1:34pm pacific standard time...
| stupidspam 2012-10-06 14:21:48 Unknown |
Just got this. I also have sprint.
| nick 2012-10-05 17:53:58 Unknown |
I use us cellular I recieved same text best buy youve won 1000.00 from phone #985-778-9951
| radpanther 2012-10-04 01:27:05 Unknown |
yes, i too got it. i have sprint. how did they get our phone numbers?
| Rachel 2012-10-03 10:38:44 Unknown |
Got this:
"Your entry last month has WON! Go to bestbuyprizes.net/ and enter code 4656 to claim your FREE $1000 Best Buy Gift Card now!"
"Your entry last month has WON! Go to bestbuyprizes.net/ and enter code 4656 to claim your FREE $1000 Best Buy Gift Card now!"
| Butterfly 2012-10-03 03:17:46 Unknown |
I also got the same message, this is B.S. I also have sprint. Really, i don't need $hit like this on my cell, my emails get enough junk mail.
| Derpybird 2012-10-03 01:55:47 SMS |
Just got this message today.
| Lighthouse 2012-10-01 16:40:29 Unknown |
I received the same text and I also have sprint.
| mad man 2012-09-30 17:21:17 Unknown |
i got the same text at 3:15 am this morning, JUNK TEXT......
| name iznot optional 2012-09-30 04:10:34 Unknown |
just got the same text like 2 mins ago && whats funnier is that i havent even been to best buy in over 3 months. Been on bed rest so i havent been anywhere. go figure
| Courtney 2012-09-28 14:29:32 SMS |
I just got the same message like two minutes ago, and I never go to best buy so obviously junk, and I also have sprint.... what is up with their service Im always getting BS text like this.
| paul 2012-09-28 02:25:29 Unknown |
I got the same message just a min ago. convenient that the caller claimed it was something I signed up for a month ago. most don't remember last week. It's a scam of course.
| jesse 2012-09-28 02:10:33 Unknown |
I received text from number, 208-219-6967 @ 9:38am central time:
"Your entry last month has WON! Go to http://bestbuyprizes.net/ and enter code 4656 to claim your FREE $1000 Best Buy Gift Card now!"
I use Sprint.
"Your entry last month has WON! Go to http://bestbuyprizes.net/ and enter code 4656 to claim your FREE $1000 Best Buy Gift Card now!"
I use Sprint.
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