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Ruling it out as a legitimate commercial text message

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Part of the point of SOS SMS on Grumbletext is to stop text messaging going the same way as email - i.e. being drowned in a ton of very dodgy� spam and scams.�There is a growing commercial text industry out there which provides many people with fun, rewards, real prizes (though not usually particularly big ones - a good thing).

Legitimate commercial text marketing comes in many forms but if you've read about junk text scams on this site and figure the text you've received probably isn't one then there's really only one question you need to be able to answer

Has the text come from a service you know you subscribed to? i.e. did you ask to receive it and therefore know where it has come from? And is it offering you what you expected to be offered...

If you can answer a definite yes to the above, then it is a legitimate commercial text - probably...

A note of caution about brands: merely recognizing a brand in a text is not at all good enough - because it is exactly the tactic which some of the scammers employ - for example, a particular text tried to look as though it was associated with Sony - of course it wasn't as a glance at its laughable website revealed.

So, a commercial text may or may not conform strictly to ICSTIS's code of practice but the critical thing you really need to know is - you know what it is and you know why you're getting it...

The mere fact that you are on this website is therefore a strong indication that you are not in receipt of a legitimate commercial text message.

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