The current flavour of the month here in the UK appears to be SMS text message spam where you`ll receive some bullshit or other about being entitled to money following a mysterious accident. Are people in other countries receiving this rubbish? Has anyone managed to find out more about who/what is sending it? I`m more interested in finding out how my mobile phone number has made it out into the wild.

I`d assume some eejit has gone out and bought a Pay As You Go SIM card and a thrown together a nasty little piece of software. Perhaps they`re trying every number in the 077-079 range?

Free Msg; Our records indicate that you may be entitled to £3450 for the accident you had. To apply free reply CLAIM to this message. To opt out text STOP.

For anyone who`s not familiar with this kind of stuff, you shouldn`t send any kind of reply. You basically ignore the message in the same way you`d ignore a spam e-mail, unless you think it`s worth complaining to your mobile phone provider and/or OFCOM. Either way, I think there`s currently little chance of getting anywhere with this one. At least with e-mail you can train a filter to automatically delete the e-mail. I may end up calling my mobile phone network to see what they can do as it`s getting more than a little annoying.

Here`s my current “list” (does 3 consitute a list?) of numbers:-

+447542020767  (07542020767 in the UK)
+447522406122  (07522406122 in the UK)
+447864349813  (07864349813 in the UK)

If anyone is found with these numbers, I`ll be one of many people coming by to offer you a swift kick up the arse.  Tossbudgies.