That sucks, dude. Fight the good fight.

Danah, it would be ideal if those who received C&D letters could post them at ChillingEffects.org... then clinical law students across the country will mark them up so that you all know just what legal options you have and if what they are claiming holds any water.

I went to their site to let them know they're not getting me as a customer, due to their silly nonsense. So I click the "contact us" link and... I have to join to talk to them! Yup, first you pay us then we listen! These dudes are way way way out there...

These people are Whores and Scum. Luckily, before now I'd never even heard of the bastards. But now, I hate them.

Good job, SMS.ac! I don't even know you and I hope your rectums prolapse while you're in bed.

you and Joi Ito are friends? that's sooooo cool.

love the logo!

With you 100%, Danah. These guys are creeps.

BTW, perhaps you didn't really mean to use 'autistic' as a negative adjective out of context. I mean, you wouldn't be thrilled if I wrote something on my website like "man, I really hate CS298; that class is so gay". Besides, wouldn't autistic software be software that refused to interact with the rest of your data instead of gregariously spamming your friends?

;)

The way that i'm using autistic is the same way as the way that i use it in my talk of the same title (see http://www.danah.org/papers ). Autistic social software refers to the type of software that engages in social behavior in a prescribed and formulaic way, a systematic mechanism for dealing with people. The slant has to deal with the idea that the system is prescribing behavior as though everyone is autistic.

The practices of autism are perfectly acceptable for either systems or autistics, but it is not acceptable to ask humanity at large to engage in autistic social practices.

I despise sms.ac so much! It's taking advantage of teens and computer-illiterate people like nothing I've ever seen before!

The fact that they aren't even straightforward about what SMS is and how it works is even worse. No third party can suddenly enable texting on a phone, even though every Canadian friend of mine has fallen for it.

I've explained to my sister the extent of her stupidity when she gave away her hotmail login and password, causing the spam of 350 people, and forced her to send an apology email right away. Trust me, she won't be making that mistake again anytime soon.

hello, I am getting spamlike stuff from sms.ac, and it really annoys me? what kind of stuff do I have to do to get C&D letters from sms.ac? I really want one.

shit! ive just signed up!woops

I did give my cell phone number by mistake for text maessage. Did anybody receive any extra bill for their cell phone?
Thank you guys.
Hakin

What an agressive approach does SMS ac use on their will never be customers! They will be sorry for sure . Be ware to not open or answer their shitty messages.

So does the fact that people mention that hotmail and MSN log-ins are being used to spam people mean that Microsoft is in on it too? If not, maybe they could use a few of their many lawyers to put pressure on SMS.ac or at least warn their users. Just a possibly naive thought...

The SMS.ac fuckers make it really hard to find out how to cancel the service. I had those annoying $0.25 telemarketing messages added to my bill. Eventually I found out how to fix it - just text STOP ALL to 57413

If you have personally or know others who have been charged by this SMS.ac (i.e. .25 cents or $25), please contact me at your earliest convenience to stop the alleged company practices and to provide free consumer assistance.

The company appears to have been targeting people in other countries than the U.S. We are only equipped to assist folks in the United States and preferably in California. We are located in San Diego, CA and our web site is www.ucan.org so you can see that what is being stated herein is factual.

Sincerely hope to hear from you and thank you.

Sue

Those bastards! They got me too. Unfortunately, my less online-savvy friends thought I meant to spam them and actually signed up so now I'm getting the same spam back from them - repeatedly.

Currently looking through inbox for my old mobile phone bills...

I signed up for SMS.ac but I didn't do the 'check my Hotmail' part. I never gave out my Hotmail password anyways. I've heard about the spam but I haven't received any yet, and hakin, I did not receive any extra charges on my cell phone bill. It's worked fine for me to send text messages (no charges) but that's crazy about the spam and charges. I'm from Canada by the way, and no troubles since...but now you've got me worried.

I also signed up with SMS.ac but I have not noticed the massive amounts of spam e-mails found in my hotmail nor have I found any charged as of yet on my mobile bill... but I will check because of these incidents and being worried of course. I thank you for posting these comments on the net or I would not have found out the tactful things that SMS.ac are trying to do!

Yep, those fuckers spammed me too, but I didn't sign up with them... I was tempted to sign up just to tell them to fuck off.. but then I realized that, thats exactly what these scumbags want. I still don't know how they got access to hotmail users address books...

My dad signed up tho... and got an invitation to join sms AGAIN this time the invitation was from himself... LOL, they should really recheck their spamming algorithm to only spam with mutually exclusive addresses.

~PV

hello i did got my self in to it but you know what ? i dont know if they are paling games on people so as to sent spam letter to them i need someone to explain to me the type of games they are paling if is the gun damn truth.

Crap! if only i checked it out first! i totally wasn't thinking...i did submit my hotmail password and found out an hour later that the invitation was sent 4 times to my boyfriend (4 email addresses). I was razzed the next workday by my techie coworkers.

Hi guys:
I have never been on this forum until today. I received an email for an invitation, from a friend, to join SMS.ac. It seemed a little fishy when they required me to give my mobile number and email address, so I decided to conduct some online research... I'm sooooo glad I found this site with all of your rants. Without them I would have probably joined thinking it was something harmless. Keep up the good work!! I'll make sure to spread the word about these SCUM BAGS!!

ip

SMS.ac SEEMS to have targeted Thailand. I have gotten several emails from fake-name accounts that resemble my friends who work in Bangkok. They confirmed that they did not intend to invite me or did not invite me. It is extremeley annoying for all involved. Thanks to the poster above who shows how to send the STOP ALL text message to stop the process.

SMS.ac is run by a man named Michael Pousti ("MP") who portrays himself to be a business genius or some kind of 'child prodigy' who claims to have read Bill Gate's books by the time he was twelve (funny thing is that Bill Gates didn't write anything that early on). Everyone in SMS.ac who 'drank the kool-aid' rallies around this guy and believes he will be the next technology billionaire and make them all big business leaders and millionaires themsleves. Although no one gets paid and opts to work for worthless stock options (said to be worth millions by year's end - every year since 2001) they are considered 'consultants' and cut a check for anything from $100 to $1000 a month not from SMS.ac but from another company called ActiveSMS. This money is supposedly what's left after paying SMS.ac bills and split evenly among all employees. The reality is that SMS.ac requires every 'consultant' to be at the SMS.ac business office at 8:00am every morning for the face-time required by MP to show his greatness and attempt to brainwash his followers. There is a holiday schedule, people work more hours than a regular job and weekends are just another work day. SMS.ac is ripping off tax-payers by not paying their fair share and ripping off employees who are not contributing to their unemployment insurance. It doesn't matter if your salary is $45K, you will get about $10K a year with no taxes paid. This is fraud if I'm not mistaken.

Number two - SMS.ac suposedly has 10 million users. A very good engineer who worked directly with the data reported to me that there are less than 500K active users. The bulk of the data is duplicate users, same users with multiple accounts and bogus data. SMS.ac makes the most noise about the user base. Yet the income doesn't reflect what 10 million users buying mobile text messages would be. Not by a long shot. Michael Pousti claims to be a Computer Scientist, yet dropped out of college (http://www.dailyaztec.com/Archive/Spring-1999/05-06/City/story03.html) apparently to pursue a career in ripping off other college students using mail fraud (http://www.usps.com/judicial/1990deci/err-1.htm). If this guy isn't a sociopath, I don't know who is. So many falshoods are tossed around at SMS.ac, it's amazing more people don't questions what the hell is really going on there.

Check out the president of Sms.ac mail order fraud case (court papers) and other scams. This guy is a documented con artist!

I, too, was fooled into signing up, and now spam is originating in my name.

How does one totally purge this garbage from one's PC, cell phone, Hotmail account, etc.

so, what to do when you signed up?
I visited the website, gave my password of hotmail, but I did not agree with it, I didn't signed up. But I recived a mail, that I am signed up! Probably all my friends recived the mail also. I'am so stupid! I have changed my password, what can I do now? Please help

hello

I signed me friends up with this sms and one of them gets text messaging that charges her and she cant stop it plus im also getting charged for each text message i receive. Wot can i do to stop. Such a take on this site.

Hey i've just signed up with sms.ac, I only wanted to send free texts off the net. They did send texts to my mobile but I had no credit for them to take money off. Are the text messages online really free? I don't want a big bill at the end of the month! Agggh! HELP! Loads of my friends use it and they haven't mentioned anything like you guys all have!

Aren't the people at SMS.AC any smarter to be doing what they're doing? This astounds me!

Also, why doesn't Michael C. Pousti learn from his past? "Autistic" would probably be the best description here.

An idea...change your account password you submitted. I don't know. It might help and don't activate shit they send you to your phone.
Thanks.

Goddamn,

Really quite happy I have never signed in for this crap!

I am getting bombed with emails with, up to the 4th request... driving me craze....

Isn't there any way to stop this spam?

I keep getting spammed by this stuff to. But I have a plan. Let's fight fire with fire, if we all work together it will work fantastically. Let's use their own software against them.

Step 1: Create a new hotmail account

Step 2: Add the following e-mail addresses, as found on the SMS.ac corporate website, to the address book of your new account
sponsorships@corp.sms.ac
hr@corp.sms.ac
bizdev@corp.sms.ac
partnerinfo@corp.sms.ac
prcomm@corp.sms.ac
customercare@corp.sms.ac

Step 3: Sign up for SMS.ac using you're newly created account

Now they will be spamming themselves. The more people we get to do this the better. Sure they will eventually block all such e-mails in their system, but that's the future, let's punish them today.

the shits wont stop sending me messages 50 cent 10 messages a day!
i cant stop it the sms that the person said would wrk doesnt! this is horrid

found a way to stop it!!!!
To cancel all services, send STOP ALL to 19976722

Smsac is so fuked in the head i wanna drop a nice big fat mother fucking virus in there cause the service is shit and i almost smashed my computer cause of it

i signed up a while ago and thought this would be a good thing. I never ended up using there stupid service, not even one meessage! I recieved there crappy sms's costing me 25p each (UK). I went to there website and deleted my account. I STILL GET MESSAGES SAYING THAN SOME LOSER WHO USES "SMS.AC" WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND" this still costs me and when i go to the website to get into my account and delete my number it says "account has been canceled" or some crap like that. how can my account be cancelled if they still have my number. i decide to contact them but wait they want me to join them again/sign in. so to sum up: SMS.AC SHOULD BE BANNED AND EVERY ONE OF THERE STAFF SHOULD BE DRAGGED TO ONE TORTURE ROOM AND BURNT! especially "Michael Pousti" (thats a bit harsh)
someone help!
is the "STOP ALL to 57413" free and easy to do?
please reply
TIA
'O'

I like the idea of going to Microsoft and seeing if they can use their lawyers to pressure SMS.ac. If SMS.ac is using peoples accounts to send spam, that would be against the hotmail terms of use (http://privacy.msn.ca/tou/default.asp). If SMS.ac is sending spam from elsewhere and spoofing the email headers, then maybe there are spam laws could help us.

Maybe that Chillingeffects.org will help people organize a class action lawsuit.

being a naturally scam- suspicious law student i actually READ THE SMALL PRINT before i signed up to sms.ac
to be fair to them, their scamming is all there in black and white

so is cancelling by sending the Stop all text free?

when do you get charged?? I started to sign up until my sister walked in the room and said don't do it, it's a scam. I got to step 2. They have my phone number and service provider. Should I expect them to try to charge me??

It isn't a rip off at all, It tells you plainly what they are doing. It is being ignorant and not reading that got you all introuble. I use the service and enjoy it a lot. They don't break any privacy laws because YOU GIVE THEM your login and password ( idiots) also, you agree in the Terms of Service. Remember when Kazaa put spyware on your computer? Idiots. Overall the service is cool and I like messaging people all over the world. I guess every company does this kind of think each free email company spams me with email.

Whateva

Look here: http://www.txt.ca./current_codes.htm

Follow the instructions here: http://www.sms.ac/help/answers/acct_8.asp

The short code for Canada is: SMSMO (76766)

fucked up service. I'm dutch and getting fucking irritated because of the rubbish there sending.

"It is being ignorant and not reading that got you all introuble."

Is this what Sms.ac relies on?
Or, Can we opt out of spam before signing up?

Hey, I'm Dutch too and I don't know how to stop this fucking service. Ofcourse I read the posted messages, but I'm afraid these numbers to send STOP ALL to are not the right ones for me...

One of my friends actually meant to spam me with this shit and recommended I signed up. I did, it spammed everyone on my address book. I unsubscribed esp. as I was receiving texts that cost me �1.50, using the web page I unsubscribed from things which I had no recollection ticking boxes for (I am receiving football messages but I didn't ask for them)- however, I am still getting these expensive text messages. I would like to see them taken to court and made cripplingly poor.

Hi, I'm also getting tha same SMS.ac shit. They kept even disturbing my contacts by sending them reminders on behalf of me ... it really sucks. Some of my contacts are business contacts... it's really embarrassing. I've sent many emails to them to stop the shit but without response. If I don't hear from them, I'd just reply in the same manner.. I promise to shoot their servers down. Any help, any ideas? FUCK SMS.ac

Well, shit, I have been using SMS now, for not to long to send messages to my friends in Canada, I only used it 2 times, now I saw this... Im going to delete my account, but will this anger them and charge me... lol, I signed up long time ago, and then i was getting this message from my friend to sign up, so i did, but it was like you are already sign up.. I guess I was in before they asked for my hotmail info.. I live in Austria. Should I just delete my account, I was just going to change my profile, and put it on hide profile, and never use it again!?!, fuck, if they charge my cell phone I will be angry, they state I get free sms 8 a day or some shit, I have not use it at all, but I added a few of my friends, then It send me a message that they agreed,will it charge me for those? Now Im angry!

HOLLAND CALLING AGAIN...

Please PLEASE tell me HOW I can stop this shite SMS AC?! I keep getting crap on my mobile, with a message 'if you want to stop this, send "STOP"to 3111. When I do, I get an sms back asking me to CHECK SPELLING!! AS IF I will send another sms to them..?!?!?! Thats what they want right?

Tried going to www.sms.ac - the page is not active any more!!

SO WHAT THE FUCK DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET RID OF THE WANKERS?!?!?!

Ironically, Ive never sent ANY sms's through their service, I just signed up so that my friend could free sms me -- he never did either. So all this trouble over NOTHING. I must be in hell.

Thanks SMS AC EN KRIJG DE TYFUS RUKKERS!!!

I almost fell into that trap, its just one moment's lapse when i stopped and i thought what i was getting into when they asked for my password that i thought it better and google for sms.ac's authenticity..

Hey everybody... if someone out there has a high traffic site (porn, jokes whatever), maybe you can get even with sms.ac by linking to small images on the sms.ac server.

For instance load this image multiple times by adding extra parameter after url like this:

http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?0
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?1
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?2
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?3
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?4
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?5
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?6
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?7
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?8
http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?9

All in all it should be something like this:
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?0" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?1" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?2" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?3" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?4" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?5" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?6" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?7" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?8" style="display:none">
<IMG SRC="http://www.sms.ac/registration/images/slice_05.jpg?9" style="display:none">

Anybody else got some nice ideas to fuck them up?

i didn't even give my e-mail password i don't know how they got my contact list and they keep spamin everyone i know from a made up e-mail account with my name i can't even get rid of the account because it says the e-mail is not registered wtf do i do?

I hate spammers, SMS.ac should be shut down. And guys for *** sake do not post your real emails here, you could be spammed easily, anyone can collect the email adresses on this page and add it to a database. Besides, never believe "send us an email and we will remove you from the list", it is bullshut and only intended so that the spammers gets confirmation that your emal is working.

BTW: IAmNotGonnaGiveoutMyAdress@fucksms.ac is not my email.

And another dutchie calling..

Damn those fraudulent bastards.
I used to be registered there, cancelled my registration on the site it.

A friend of mine went there as well, and sure enough it starts all over again. So any help in getting rid of these asses, would be greatly appreciated.

High time the dutch government would pay more attention in banning these scammers.
(If that's in any way possible ofcourse)

hi; mir jeni moj vajza si ju ka lala shkruani lales se nuk do te zhgenjeheni, provoni mos nguroni provoni

Goddamn,

Really quite happy I have never signed in for this crap!

I am getting bombed with emails with, up to the 4th request... driving me craze....

Isn't there any way to stop this spam?

Im getting that shit too, but not only from friends and family, but from people I have absolutely no idea who are, too...

To cancel, you need to log onto your account via the web. My sister managed to get her money back that way as well (but not everyone is so lucky).
To stop repeated requests to join, click the link in the email which says "I don't want to receive anymore requests" (or something similar).
By the way, nice logo - actually I borrowed it for my blog entry on SMSac. Hope you don't mind.

I have never signed up, but someone added me to the list or something. I get SMS-es every day... So I contacted them, they promise to blacklist my number, but they don't. The person I speak to is named Randy George: Randy George [rgeorge@corp.sms.ac]. Maybe more of you can contact him. I also reported them to my local Telecom Authority to blacklist them here in Holland. They seem to go all over the world with this. If someone would like to start legal action, I am willing to participate and donate money. If we all donate a 10er through PayPal, some laywer might wanna start a case ;-)

Has anyone noticed that sms.ac is an anagram for "SCAMS"?

Just my 2 cents.

Message for sms.ac - sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

fuck sms im gonna kill them there fuckin pieces of shit. How do you get off there bullshit?Im gonna kill sms.cas familys and chop them up those motherfucking sons of bitches.

Help!

I'm from Austria and I would like to sign me out from sms.ac but I've no idea how i make this!

Who can help me? Please writte an e-mail to:

leta_leta21@hotmail.com

bye leta

Here is a site that tells you how to cancel sms... good luck to all....
http://sms.ac/help/mobilecommands/h2_cancel.asp

i like this

hey all,youse have been helpful but do any f you no if u get to the second stage then close the window do you get the annying txts or wot ev. so i have entered my mob number in and they have sent me somethin but i have done anythin else eg:entere my email password in.wot do i do

SMS.ac is hosted by a company in California. These are the details:

OrgName: California Regional Internet, Inc.
OrgID: CALI
Address: 8929A COMPLEX DRIVE
City: SAN DIEGO
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 92123
Country: US

Their abuse e-mail address is:

abuse@cari.net

If enough people e-mail their host complaining about sms.ac spam and threaten to contact the hosts upstream provider, the host will shut them down. The hosts upstream provider is:

OrgName: Cogent Communications
OrgID: COGC
Address: 1015 31st Street, NW
City: Washington
StateProv: DC
PostalCode: 20007
Country: US

Their abuse e-mail address is:

abuse@cogentco.com

I've also very annoyed with sms.ac . They've cancelled my account, saying that I had "inappropriate photos". It was a normal photo of me, not porno. I've asked them to re-open my account. In answer, I've only got silence. Also I've investigate and so far I've found more than 35 users with porno photos that are there for more than 1, 2 or 4 months. I've asked again to re-open my account, I didn't had any porno photo, and nothing. I so angry with them. If you all want, here is a list of several eMails of sms.ac.
Register yourself with a temporary user, using these eMails, make something to be kicked off and they will be kicked off:
treed@corp.sms.ac
sponsorships@corp.sms.ac
hr@corp.sms.ac
bizdev@corp.sms.ac
partnerinfo@corp.sms.ac
prcomm@corp.sms.ac
customercare@corp.sms.ac
prsubscribe@corp.sms.ac
marketing@corp.sms.ac
greg@corp.sms.ac
rqiu@corp.sms.ac
ksmith@corp.sms.ac
customersupport@corp.sms.ac
smsfeedback@corp.sms.ac
gsmith@corp.sms.ac
rgeorge@corp.sms.ac
abuse@cari.net
abuse@cogentco.com
tcarter@corp.sms.ac
dshresta@corp.sms.ac
cmckibbin@corp.sms.ac
aschaffer@corp.sms.ac
dhanson@corp.sms.ac
rqiu@corp.sms.ac
cvalencia@corp.sms.ac
egbrower@corp.sms.ac
bwilliams@corp.sms.ac
mpousti@corp.sms.ac

Vodafone user in the UK.

I received an inivitation to join sms.ac from a friend with a very unusual name so I went though the sign on thinking that the invitation was authentic. Then it asked me for my hotmail account details.... and an alarm went off in my head so I didn't provide the password.... Thankgod I didn't !! They sound like a bunch of spamming ripoff bastards. I immediately deleted the account and sent 'STOP ALL' to 62468.

I will be watching carefully to see if I get any charges on my bill.

I can't understand how these guys are still trading with these horrendous practices?

Vodafone user in Australia

Just checked with Vodafone and found out I have been charged for smses that came to my mobile. Each msg was charged $0.55. This is crap! The way to stop is to send an SMS 'STOP ALL' to 19976722 for Australia users.

heh. I have the same thing, sent spam SMS every day charged for them! All they say is "retard wants to be your friend. Click here"
They also send spam email to all your friends, and actually contacting anyone to tell them you're getting spam is impossible. Oh yeah, and I got spam even though I "unsubscribed". How convenient. You can block them. Or read scary stories about them at www.ripoffreport.com

I signed up to this but gave them a DIFFERENT password - it still got into my yahoo account and spammed everyone in the address book. How does it do this? Someone has to shut this scam down.

Hi

I also hate sms.ac, I tried to delete my account, but I can't logg in!They then tell me that they can send me my password, so I try that option, but they don't send me anything!FUCKERS!!It's very frustrating! I'm from Holland, so I tried to sms STOP ALL to 31111, I hope this will work!! Does anybody know what else I could do? I hope you can help me! Cause I can use my money for better things than this!! FUCK SMS.AC!!!!! AAAAAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH
If you can help me, please send an e-mail to :
laurafriends4_ever@hotmail.com

Thanks for this site, at least someone is listening!

yours, laura

I'm currently in Oz at the moment and a few days ago these stupid mystic txt msg's started coming through on my phone, didn't have a clue what they were and decied to ignore them thinking one of my mates was arsing aabout. Then following few days I'm still getting them and whats worse is I then get heaps of txt msg's saying insufficient funds and that I can't recieve txt's! All my credit had been used the the twats that are sending the stupid things and I have never even heard of them, gave any info out or been to any website so how the hell did I get sucked into their shitty little con trap???????? And can anyone tell me why any intelligent human being would waste money to sign up for that pile of shit to be sent to their phone anyway? WHAT A LOAD OF BALLS!!!

My girlfriend just got an "invitation to sms.ac" from her brother. Only, her brother committed suicide a few months ago.

The bastards. If I could get my hands on them...

Just today my friend was complaining bitterly about SMS.ac services and how he feels ripped off because it's eating away his mobile phone credit.

However, being the contrary character I am, I took the opposite tack and defended the service.

I use sms.ac and I'm quite happy with the service. The pricing is explained, and I just sent STOP FRND to 19976722 to stop those annoying 55 cent "X is inviting you to be his friend" messages.

I figure if I've used sms.ac to send 20 messages so far, that's saved me $5.00, and I've probably been charged a few bucks for the annoying Premium Message services that I didn't want, so I'm not complaining.

And think of all the people this service has brought together (including you guys complaining about it!! ;)

My advice?

Go to the MESSAGES tab and select Message Preferences and turn OFF ALL the SMS notifications to save those 55c PREMIUM message costs. You can still manage your profile on-line.

Go to EMAIL PREFERENCES and say NO to e-mails to stop spam.

Don't send more than five (5) messages per day so that it's free.

Send STOP ALL to 19976722 if you want to STOP ALL messages!

Strange place and very detailed advice from "Happy". Is this person related to sms.ac somehow? Hmmmmmm

I got a couple of these email invites from an old school friend I haven't seen in years... I got suspicios when it asked me for my hotmail password. I wrote about it in some detail on another forum:
http://www.perthbands.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19362

I got an email from them a couple of hours later titled 'Rohan, where did you go?' It wanted me to complete my registraion... persistent little fuckers.

From Zabasearch, i found some public information that shows the jerk president of SMS.AC's home address! HAHA! It is all legal and public information. Go to Zabasearch and type in Michael Pousti yourself.

It seems Mr. Pousti is a Muslim Iraqi of some sort.

If you get the runaround, maybe sending a message directly the president may get you heard.

I'm an O2 user in the UK. I've deleted my account over a week now and i still get invitations from 'friends'... charging me... The sms.ac bastards should get legal actions against them by someone...

From Europe

Why are these creeps still alive. I thought people killed for far less than this in America.
Do us all a favor! Someone!

god DAMN sms.ac
i feel so USED!!!
and stupid for not realising....
i keep trying to sign in and it WONT LET ME....how am i going to delete my account....i send a txt message saying 'stop all' but i havent received any confirmation.
somebody pls help! im a student...i need the little credit i have!!!

I have a treo 600 phone and i have been receiving blank text messages from 57413. I am assuming this has something to do with sms.ac even though I have never signed up with them. Now my phone does not work at all. It is a month old and it cuts off every time I try to text message someone or call. I am assuming it has to do with sms.ac because I researched and 57413 is the US code for Verizon phones. Has anyone had this problem with sms.ac and if so, what can I do?

Fuck me these guys are little shits....they need sorting out man.....they are just corrupted little twats that have enough free time on their hands to bug everyone and cost everyone money.
Someone please sue them so I dont have to.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr >:(

Contact Information to:

SMS Inc.
Street : 7770 Regents Road Suite 113-405
City : San Diego
State : CA
Postal Code : 92122
Country : US

If you want to get rid of the messages, you log in and cancel account manually. Then on your cell phone, you reply to the fucking number that keeps spamming you sms with "Stop all messages" I think the number is different for people..so just reply to whatever shows up on your cell phone.

i've signed up by sms invitation, but I didn't know how irritable it was! HOW can I stop it?! PLEASE HELP! You can't answer stop frnd and you can't also answer STOP ALL to 54173!!!!!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO ?! I BECAME CRAZY !!!,

I'm waiting for an answer (A)...

B.

Guys, first go into Message Preferences of SMS.ac and make sure you disabled any of the annoying services they have.

If you still get charged, then, kick them in the butt.

EVERYBODY THAT DOESNT KNOW HOW TO ERASE YOUR ACCOUNT, JUST REPLY "STOP ALL" TO THE SAME NUMBER THAT YOU GET THOSE ANOYING FAKE FRIENDS REQUESTS.

DO IT BEFORE ITS TOO LATE..

how about sue this company class action

how do I stop them inviting my contacts.
I have never used the SMS.ac thing and I have even cancelled my mobile phone as I have moved abroad.
A business contact periodically gets sent these invites (I assume more are getting them but have not mentioned it to me). I have even deleted him from the contacts list but that obviously did not work.
I may be in trouble as I neither know my account number or have the original mobile number in use.

bunch of tossers, that pousti needs his balls pulled off

my advice is if youve been fooled into this, get out asap, change your email login details, and if your getting the texts reply to them with 'STOP ALL'

Wow.. I remember half-signing up to this service months ago.. well, not even really signing up.. Got an invite from friend overseas.. checked it out and didnt put in any hotmail details. For some time now I have been receiving phone bills with "small" amounts of extra charges without explanation of where they are from... Vodafone online phonebill notified me today which are the extras and surprise surprise all those "Dipshit wants to be your friend" messages have been costing me money despite never actually signing up to receive them.. I remember abandoning the signup when asked for my hotmail details.. Anyway, for those in Australia, the solution is sending "STOP ALL" to 19976722

G'luck

Can't see that well to read all that but,
the question I want answered is can i send a free sms without having to fill in regestration forms?

I signed up through a mate for the free sms's they were offering on sms.ac, although I never ended up using it. But all of a sudden about 3 weeks ago I started getting like 3 and 4 msgs a day on my phone from people who wanted to be my 'friend' though sms.ac. Not only was it a pain in the butt, but I just got my bill and the bastards have chagred me $6 for it!!! WTF!!!! That's absolute bullshit. I'm so angry, and the worst thing is, you can't unsubscribe or get your details taken off it!!!
I'm in Australia too- so it's not just a US/Canada thing.

Not happy!!

I signed up with sms.ac like over a year ago..and just recently, i've been getting charged for those retarded "lets be friends" msgs. I didn't think it mattered, and tried bearing with the 2-4 txts i got a day, but apparently, rogers charges for the web traffic, it charges you, even if they aren't the ones sending (and are just receiving).

I got billed $14.00 by Rogers today. I'm from Toronto. Rogers can't do anything to help you. They suggest going to the link and unsubscribing. I don't think it worked. I would suggest using the "STOPALL" and sending it back to the # they use to send you. Mine was 767225

Thanks for all the help above.

I can't believe i got scammed. Oh well, lesson learned the hard way.

I don't think any company has ever made feel as violated. It's a complete fucking disgrace and if I could ever see anybody affiliated with that company I would spit in their face. If you follow this link http://boxover.swazz.org/whysmsacsucks.html you can read what happened when I made the mistake of signing up with these stupid assholes.

hai,
how r u

I live in Uk and am being charged £1 a day for 2 texts. I have sent stop numerous times but the texts keep coming and I keep paying. Someone please help me to stop this alltogether in the UK. Who do i call, what do i text to who????? Thanks....

Hey,
I had these txts sent to me while I was away at school (Guelph, Ontario Canada).

Came home to outrageous phonebills, so, being the b.comm student I was, I called Rogers Wireless expecting a fight, but the rep immediately knew what I was talking about and issued a credit right away! I told her to credit the other two months I was billed and she complied without hesitation!

So, if you're a Roger's user, call them and tell them to stop the "sms.ac premium service" and credit you back the charges. They also gave me this number to call them and cancel the service:

1-888-697-6722
They'll want -

Name
mobile
country code
email
nature of call

I've read elsewhere that it'll cost you to cancel through sending a STOPALL msg, so I figure calling in and telling th