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Did You Receive This Dubious Email from “T-Mobile” Too?

T-Mobile customers are sharing a recent email they received from their wireless carrier. If you are a T-Mo customer, be on the lookout for an email with the subject: “T-Mobile Confirmation: Plan Cancelled.”  According to users on Reddit, the mysterious email discussed the next steps after the subscriber deletes his Mobile Internet account and how they can restart service if they wanted. Although the email seems legit, the Redditor who started the thread was out at … [read full article]

T-Mobile: Implementing Fine on Spammers and Scammers That Use Its Network

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2024 is just a couple of days away yet we’re still seeing several individuals receiving spam texts. If you’re a smartphone user, you know the struggle all too well. Thankfully, T-Mobile is doing something to address this problem.  As spotted by Cord Cutters News, the Un-carrier will be imposing a fine against third-party organizations that use its network to send illegal texts, scams, and spam messages. The fine that will be imposed will depend on the … [read full article]

T-Mobile customers are target of new spam message

  Over the weekend, T-Mobile customers were reportedly the subject of a new spam. It seems like the spammer has moved on from targeting Verizon Wireless to T-Mo customers.  As reported by BestMVNO, T-Mobile customers have received a text message containing a link to various websites. This is pretty similar to the spam messages that Verizon customers received last week. The only difference is that Big Red’s customers received the text from their own spoofed numbers. … [read full article]

New text spam targeting T-Mobile customers

Heads up to all T-Mobile subscribers! There seems to be some kind of spam text going around T-Mobile customers over the last 24 hours. And you need to be careful about this text.  The report comes from The T-Mo Report, which shared screenshots from the victims of the spam text via the T-Mobile subreddit.  According to the report, customers seem to be receiving a text with an image offering a “$100 FREE GIFT” once you complete … [read full article]

Spam TmoMail SMS messages affecting a number of T-Mobile customers

UPDATE: T-Mobile got in touch to confirm that they have identified the issue:  “Our teams have now identified and blocked the sources of the unwanted text messages.  We apologize to any customers who may have been inconvenienced” It has come to our attention recently that some T-Mobile customers have been receiving spam text messages to their phones. The problem seemed to rear its ugly head towards the end of last month, and over the past couple of weeks. There … [read full article]

(Update) PSA: Galaxy S II Owners Should Be On Watch For Unknown App Trying To Install

Update: The Verge has a pretty good breakdown about what’s going on. It doesn’t appear that OSJC was acting maliciously by trying to self-install as it was given the same App ID as one that was already in common with Samsung’s own email app — even though the Samsung App ID isn’t in the Google Play store, only on Samsung’s own ROM. The process for removing the app requires some Android hacking skills — Samsung and … [read full article]