> If they won't credit you, tell them that you want to close your cell
>> phone account immediately.
> Good idea. I'll try that next time.
Good luck.
AFAIK, Verizon credits the victims of SMS spam automatically.
> I immediately closed it, and told them the reason why. There's some
>> hole through which spammers are able to collect Hotmail addresses.
> No, they just blast spam a billion randomly generated addresses every day.
I know that's the case for "mrc", but I think that it's rather unlikely that they could have randomly guessed my late unlamented Hotmail userid. It would have required trillions, not billions.
Also, a blast-spam of one billion requires a sustained rate of 12,000 spams/second.
Mark
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