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    don't give out your mobile number! works just like email spam!

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    Gah!, i just got one right now!

    "This is the second time
    we have tried to contact
    you - you have won a
    GUARANTEED £500!!!
    or a holiday......."

    There was other garb at the end, about who to phone etc, but it had too many numbers and code in it for me to decipher

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    Originally posted by Bobby Sixkiller
    don't give out your mobile number! works just like email spam!
    Heh, thats a naive comment, unlike e-mail you can just spam 07730 100000 to 07730 999999 without issue.

    They don't care who they send it too.

    TiG

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    Originally posted by TiG
    Heh, thats a naive comment, unlike e-mail you can just spam 07730 100000 to 07730 999999 without issue.

    They don't care who they send it too.

    TiG
    maybe, but i have found i only got spammed on one of my three numbers after i registed with a web site, but i guess you can get a random hit..

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