sending Restricted text messages?
anyone know if this is possible? kind of like in The Departed where the senders number is blocked and it just comes up as Restricted.
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Anything is possible, but seriously that's the last thing we need. I don't want some jerk off sending spam or other messages to my cell phone where I get charged and can't even see the number to call them back or block them with.
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ashman454 said:
Anything is possible, but seriously that's the last thing we need. I don't want some jerk off sending spam or other messages to my cell phone where I get charged and can't even see the number to call them back or block them with.
If it is possible, it is not at this time on verizon and I would assume never will be for precisely this reason. VZW takes a tough stance on spam to begin with. Can't imagine they'd want to make it easier to spam. After all, it does cost the company money too (research, calls to customer service, and if they're caught, lawsuits), not just customers.
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I meant more for government use and whatnot, not really spam. if it is possible I guess its not meant for everyone to know about.
thx for the replies anyway.
thx for the replies anyway.
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Well if you think about it, if you know enough about the SMS service system and have the right equipment, I'm sure you could do it. The one thing that would keep you from doing it, besides being illegal is that you would need inside information on the equipment Verizon uses on the backend, server layouts, probably IP addresses, as a bare minimum, you'd need to know how they authenticate the phones on the system and hell, come to think of it you'd probably need to know a little about the billing system to since I would assume all those systems would have to be linked so they could either charge you for the text message or check it against if you have a sms package service.
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this isn't really relevant, but my friend used to have cricket and whenever i'd get text messages from him it would say from restricted...that's the only time i've ever seen that before, it was the strangest thing. i'd guess it has something to do with the way inter-carrier messaging works, but i'm just a lowly salesmen so i don't know the specifics.
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Go to www.vtext.com. It gives you the option to send a text message and if you want to keep the message restricted, leave the From, Reply To and Callback # fields blank.
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