Prankster & Joke of the Day | SMS Text Message Spam?
If you were charged on your cell phone bill or wireless account for third party mobile content services or subscriptions such as Joke of the Day or Prankster text alerts, etc. that you never ordered or authorized and/or you received unwanted Joke of the Day or Prankster SMS text message alert spam, tell us your story!
–Report Prankster & Joke of the Day SMS Text Scams–
Have you been getting spam jokes of the day texts from a five (5) digit cell phone number (i.e., a short code) telling you that you signed up for a monthly or weekly text joke of the day or prank subscription or service for $9.99 or $5.99 a month or week?
Hundreds of other cell phone users just like you have been spammed, slammed and crammed into receiving stupid, unhumerous and often offensive jokes from shady mobile content providers.
–Report Prankster & Joke of the Day SMS Text Scams–
I never signed up for or authorized prankster to send me daily jokes on my cell phone. I can’t find a way to stop them. I wish to stop them immediately.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I too have been getting messages from 66047.Its like flirt tip of the day, I have called at& t but they dont know where is coming from. Its just irritating to get messages when you dont want.like spam
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
My son is getting texts messages from 5 digit # that is not appropriate for a child to get. The phone company stated contact them and have him taken off their list, but it doesn’t receive return calls. I just want to know how to get these off, because we are paying for the texts. # is 66047.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
my son is geting textmessage that i don’t want him to get. could you stop sending the messages from 33433
April 28th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I browsed the free ringtone site from laughaholics and now I can’t get rid of the unwanted messages.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
I went on also browsed the free ringtone site but i did not subscribe to any type of ringtone jokes or msg. This is very annoying because they send jokes (wich aren’t funny by the way just stupid)from 1am util and it drives me crazy and i dont’ know how they are getting paid because i have Metro PCS and thats a prepaid account.They also have the nerve to send me a text telling me that my account has insufficient funds and need to be paid (Whatever!) Please can someone tell me how to stop this.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
011447929872159 Today is “National Holy Shit You’re Hot” day. Send this to someone gorgeous , but not to me, i’ve been getting this fucking text all day
I keep getting this fucking text - from international # - anyone else have info ? Better not be charging my ass for it.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
please no more text messages jokes no more jokes.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I wish to stop getting these stupid jokes on my cell phone. I did not order them nor do I want them. I am getting annoyed with this. So stop sending them!
June 20th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I keep getting stupid pick up lines on my tracfone from Ring aza. I want it to stop.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
i keep getting jokes on my phone everydayalso they are coming from71769. i do not want these jokes. i was checking out ringtones one day and they told mw i was subscribed to so joke of the day thing. i told them i did not want their jokes or their ringtones. they told me i had not subscribes but the jokes keep coming. i’m getting really tired of this. im going to call my phone subscriber to see what i can do about this. it’s very wrong you can’t just check something out for nothing and then they tell you you’ve subscribed. they can take thier jokes and you knows.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
To all of you who have complaints I had them to and here is what I did every 5 digit number you have to text the word stop and they will send you a confirmation message stating that they have been removed. It worked for me and I hope it works for you to
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:56 am
that worked for me, thanks
July 7th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I have tried to send the word stop to the number but it sends me a message back stating that number is not supported or user has not subscribed to sms what should I do about this because it wont go away?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
These people keep sending me these stupid jokes and I was just told by my cell phone provider that they are charging $9.99 to my phone bill. The provider can not tell me anything about who it is that is charging me and aren’t taking any responsibility towards random billing. Keep in mind that I never signed up or gave any permission for them to bill me. As far as I am concerned, Suncom is just as responsible as the spamers for this fraud. If anyone knows of any class action suites that could help, please write on the forum so we can attack the attackers.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I randomly got a few joke messages from 43333. I don’t want to be charged, so please take me off the list or whatever it is.
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
While looking for new ring tones for my new cell phone, I did enter my cell phone number while on their sight, but I did not authorize any charges of any kind to my cell phone bill. I can not find a way to get the daily jokes to stop. I don’t want them never did never will. I did text “stop the jokes” but they keep coming.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
i keep getting a charge for joke alert on my phone bill for $9.99. i have called many times to get it taken off and it still keeps showing up. i never even ordered it in the first place! can not seem to get any help from alltel either!
September 17th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Just called Alltel and they said to send a text message to : stop 23907. ALso have to call 1-800-235-7185.
September 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I have never signed up for prankster to send me daily jokes to my cell phone and i can not find a way to stop them, and i want them to stop them immediately so my mother will stop yelling at me about my cell phone bill.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:55 am
My brother had two $9.99 charges show up on his phone bill from Joke Alert. He has never even received the texts from this place, but they are still charging him. We finally tracked the stop code (stop 23907) to SJA Mobile. There is a place on their website where you can cancel service by entering your phone number. We entered his number and the site confirmed the cancellation. We will see if it works, and in the meantime we are going to Alltel to dispute the charges and hopefully get any future charges from SMJ blocked. If you read the SMJ terms of service on their website, it lists all the cell providers that SMJ has “agreements” with.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Three times now I have received a ten dollar charge for joke alert- 23907 that I never ordered, and when I text stop, joke alert sends me a message saying that my message wont go through- I have to dial a ten digit phone number. Now to my demise there is another charge for Game tips-97000- that I have never ordered- never got a text from, never received any services from, yet they are making money off of me, because if I don’t pay for it, alltel will disrupt my services for non payment.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I keep getting those ignorant jokes, and pranks on my sprint phone, they could not find where it was coming from and I’m tired of these over-charges…I’m just gonna have Sprint disable my text feature!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
See #19
November 20th, 2008 at 2:36 am