Unscruplous marketing/ Unwanted sms

Imagine being bombarded with sms almost every unrelenting hour, of things to buy, clothes to wear and places to eat. I always thought these were mid class companies having nothing better for their marketing have resorted to these means. Spamming your mobile is the way of the day, previously it was credit card companies and banks, now after DND its sms galore. Unobtrusive they may say, imagine putting your mobile phones in silent so that you dont wake you up in the middle of the night to see a garbage sms about some product, while fearing you might miss some important call or info in the process from people who actually need us.

In one case, when receving some sms multiple times I called them wherein a female took my phone and name to do the needful but wala within the next day, another sms has already landed. Ironically for this company its been almost the tenth time, and what excuses they have:

You had visted us earlier and as a valued customer you are receving this: Daah; I never been to that place, and usually they buy the customer list from other related companies.

Soemone else would have triggered it: Hmmmp, now how lame can that be, the company name is flashing on the top of the sms sender, if every employee could do that, then we would have no check whatsoever. These sms are specifically being sent via some sms bulk sender software or delegated to third party company.

Well if you really want to do something about it, best is call the sms sender if theres a phone number mentioned and ask them to deregister yourself. Else if nothing happens complain at your service provider, but before that you can check if your number is already under DND. Here are some of the list

Airtel
Vodafone
BSNL
MTNL
Spice
Idea
Reliance
Tata Indicom

For more information check this website: National Do Not Call Registry