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http://www.sms.ac ? Have been sent an invite but to be honest it looks a little dodgy to me. Anyone had any dealings with it?

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Harvesting email addresses by the looks of it - ignore it mate.

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been using it for a while and i have not noticed any problems with spyware or anything :tu:


edit :-
if it is then i aint noticed any problems with my ntl e-mail account :tu:

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I've seen it mentioned that they charge 25p per text received, is that right?? :erm:

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gulp , i dont know about that , i will go and check :disturbd:


edit - 5 free sms a day , i seem to recall that i went over this limit and it wouldnt let me send anymore , cant see anything about costing to recieve them , phew :D :D

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Well this is what it came up with for O2 users
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You can get 10 free sms messages a day from http://www.118888.co.uk/sms.jsp if you don't mind sending from a pc ;)

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the top line of that is the key i reckon , i have not been charged for anything , and if i have read it right then the first 5 web to phone sms are free and after that they would cost 25p , again if i have read it right , all recieving on a mobile is free , if you see what i mean :erm: :D :D

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Unless the person you send the message to replies in which case they get charged 25p for sending it back through the web service if they don't realise it's not going direct to the mobile??

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Caspar sent me a link to sign up with it,..... its expensive... they give you a few free per week i think it is... and then after that they charge you a SHED load :(

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you may be right i am not totally sure :erm:
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but you would have to register a mobile to be able to be charged , i only use it once in a while anyway when i have run out of payg credit , easy enough to stop using it i reckon , i will sign up with paul's link further up the page :tu:

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Haha yeah, use that site - as the only web developer in 118 Ltd, I'm responsible for it. :D
(but I didn't design/code it BTW)

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Don't use it, I constantly get invites off people who have joined, the site uses their MSN contact list to advertise the site and will keep sending you invites until you join, if you are on a person's MSN contact list and they join you will get invites.

It's a pain to all the people who are on your MSN contact list!

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You can manually choose the people it sends the invite to now, I had a look at the site, bloody thing keeps crashing though when you get to a certain point of the registration :dozey:

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I've heard of it as a lot of my mates from school seem to use it but I wouldn't touch it with a barge poll.

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10 sms a day free:- http://www.118888.co.uk/sms.jsp

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ECHO! Look up a few posts.

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I signed up for that a while ago so I could send a friend in HK texts... a couple of years later and now I'm suddenly getting all these "friendly invitations" from girls in Taiwan, Singapore, etc wanting to add me to their friends list
v:confused:v

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Nah no thanks, not only does it look suspicious, but id rather top up £10 a month and get 300 free SMS (with o2 btw)

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exactly why does it look suspicious :confused:

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I get invites from Random people for some reason even tho im already an SMS.ac user, its not dodgy or anything just perhaps exploited by some?

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Because it might start downloading nasty Ad aware for one thing.

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might maybe , ho hum , i have been using it for ages and seen nothing nasty :)

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Um, excuse me but I am responsible for the content of that website (118888) and I assure you that I'd rather cut my own head off with a bread knife than introduce ActiveX controls and spyware.
You have 10 SMS free a day, there's no catch, use it. :)

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;)

;) :erm:

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ahhhhhhhh so he is lying then ;) :rolleyes: :D

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The point im clearly trying to make is that Richard didnt build the site, so therefore he doesnt know whats in the coding as clearly stated in his post, which means that there might be a tiny risk of ad aware and/or spyware being downloaded. He is only in charge of all the content as also stated in his earlier post.

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OK, so I'll spell it out nice and clear.
I joined the company as a Web Developer in Jan 05, the site actually launched sometime before that.
I am at present currently responsible for it and I know the code inside out, having to deal with it often during a regular day in work.

If fact, I'd bet you £100 that you could browse the site with your IE settings set to the lowest and still get no spyware etc.

That clear enough for you? :)

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erm... so, Rich, am I right in thinking that, if you're lucky, you probably won't get any spyware from that site...? :shrug:

:D :D :D

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Probably not.....

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Nice one Wayne. You may now remove your foot from your mouth ;)

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Yes Mr Admin sir. :erm: :)

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I've had invites and used sms.ac before, nothing bad about it. I didn't use it much though, so I had my account removed.

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yeah a load of rubbish

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hi and :welcome: to the site , and pray tell , why exactly is it a load of rubbish :disturbd:

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I have had a few invites but just deleted them as I thought the site looked dodgy.

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Yeah I use it sometimes, i have had a few invites, but I just delete them. There is nothing dodgy about them or we would not use them!