We got an SMS just now, from Club Martin, telling us that Studio Martin has some German DJs playing tonight and tomorrow.
The content of the message is irrelevant: this is spam. We have never signed up to any Studio Martin mailing list. Coming from a club owned and run by some fairly western-looking people who would – we are fairly certain – consider themselves above spam, it’s clearly time they had a word with their marketing people.
As for Vodafone selling our phone numbers…
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Hey, there was another post about some pictures from 1964, Gordon, what did u do with it? :-s
Of the many advertising text messages I got (despite my calling and telling them I did not, do not and will never want to receive any text messages), this one rocks:
13.01.2009 12:52 From: 1848; Text: “This phone number is in Philip Morris Trading SRL database of adult smokers (I have never smoked and I dare ask who recorded my number there). If you wish your data erased from our database, kindly call 021-2036155″.
Indeed, call and pay for the call in order to give up something one has never asked for. Furthermore, the lady answering the phone wanted to know why I want my number off their database. Someone at Vodafone is getting some money, either officially or not. And the ANC watches in content, arms crossed.