Strange SMS

grudas · 14 Apr 2010 at 02:51

so tonight.. i received a message from 0013478502887

it says

virgin media customer: we have noticed you have downloaded illegal content. due to our new policy your Internet will be shutdown in 72 hours.

now funny thing is im not the one paying the bill for VM.. im not on any papers.. my phone pay n go is on t mobile etc... do you think its a scam/joke message ? as it has no real meaning to it.. i cant find who the phone number belongs to or anything.. any one else received something like this?

Robbo · 14 Apr 2010 at 02:57

It's probably just a scam thing spamming phones, I wouldn't worry about it. Especially if they can't have your number and you don't pay the bill

joey2cool · 14 Apr 2010 at 02:58

Robboftw said:
It's probably just a scam thing spamming phones, I wouldn't worry about it. Especially if they can't have your number and you don't pay the bill

agreed

shauncr91 · 14 Apr 2010 at 02:59

I got one the other day saying I could claim for an accident that had never even happened, I deleted it though so not sure if the number is the same.

I think it's one of those scams where you ring the number and it charges you like £10 a minute.

grudas · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:02

hmmm :/ spoke with my mate.. and he said he got a warning message too.. really confused atm

as the pay n go card is like 3 months old so theres no way they could get the number

meh it probably is a scam.. too late to be bothered by this x] thanks for answers ill see after 72 hrs ;D

Robbo · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:04

grudas said:
hmmm :/ spoke with my mate.. and he said he got a warning message too.. really confused atm as the pay n go card is like 3 months old so theres no way they could get the number meh it probably is a scam.. too late to be bothered by this x] thanks for answers ill see after 72 hrs ;D

I'm also not aware of Virgin or any ISP doing things like this anyway.

Rroff · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:16

100% Deff. wouldn't be dealt with in this fashion. If it was a serious breach of the T&C they would cut you off immediatly - otherwise you'd get an email first and if you didn't reply to that then a letter asking you to call them.

Psypher5 · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:36

The nuber is for google's HQ. They probably just want to you into install their new internet and sent the wrong message, D'oh.
See this thread for more info!

Rainmaker · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:41

virgin media customer: we have noticed you have downloaded illegal content. due to our new policy your Internet will be shutdown in 72 hours.

1) If you downloaded illegal material, it'd be the police or MI5 at your door at 4am. You wouldn't just get a text from VM.
2) If, as I suspect, they meant to say you'd downloaded content illegally (there's a difference) then they wouldn't text, wouldn't cut you off and that'd be the end of it. Oh, and downloading isn't illegal - uploading is.
3) Delete and forget.

Psypher5 · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:44

Rainmaker said:
1) Oh, and downloading isn't illegal - uploading is.

O_o

grudas · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:48

Psypher5 said:
The nuber is for google's HQ. They probably just want to you into install their new internet and sent the wrong message, D'oh.
See this thread for more info!

i see

Rainmaker said:
1) If you downloaded illegal material, it'd be the police or MI5 at your door at 4am. You wouldn't just get a text from VM.
2) If, as I suspect, they meant to say you'd downloaded content illegally (there's a difference) then they wouldn't text, wouldn't cut you off and that'd be the end of it. Oh, and downloading isn't illegal - uploading is.
3) Delete and forget.

no idea what time the message came.. as the phone was in offline mode..
police for downloading ? dont think so x] you can kill someone and all you'd get is a police woman

sharing is illegal and i am sure i haven't shared/downloaded anything that can be illegal..

Rainmaker · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:54

grudas said:
police for downloading ? dont think so x]

I think you misunderstood my distinction. There's not much you can download that constitutes 'illegal material', and the stuff that does fall under that category (bomb making instructions in Arabic, naked sexy time movies starring under 3s, etc) does in fact generally result in a friendly visit from your neighbourhood doughnut muncher.

s0ck · 14 Apr 2010 at 03:58

Is it possible one of your flat mates is ****ed off with you whoring the bandwidth for your films all day/night/week?

The number is probably a free SMS service.

grudas · 14 Apr 2010 at 04:11

Rainmaker said:
I think you misunderstood my distinction. There's not much you can download that constitutes 'illegal material', and the stuff that does fall under that category (bomb making instructions in Arabic, naked sexy time movies starring under 3s, etc) does in fact generally result in a friendly visit from your neighbourhood doughnut muncher.

its late forgive me ;D

s0ck said:
Is it possible one of your flat mates is ****ed off with you whoring the bandwidth for your films all day/night/week?

The number is probably a free SMS service.

no chance.. living in a family house only 2 people access the net on the daily bases.. and im 99% sure the other one is not downloading it probably is a scam..

we'll see after "72hrs" which again is a bit of crazy time.. i mean if we miss a bill the net/tv/phone is switched off in 4-8hrs nowhere near 3 days