Anonymous Flash SMS received

[Anonymous]

The other night I got a flash text on my sms. This is where it just pops up on the screen with the message, you press ok to dismiss it and there is no trace of the sms anywhere on your phone. Because it is a flash text the sender is not identified. I'm on Android. It was definitely somebody that knows me.

o2, I am a bit worried that someone is able to send me a flash text that just pops up on my screen, anonymously. The fact they would not want to identify themselves is more than a little bit odd.

From the research I have done, Bluebook used to allow the identification of the sender in these types of messages... however you have now scrapped texts on Bluebook so that is not an option. iPhone and Nokia used to have the ability to send these types of anonymous messages but shouldn't do anymore.

Since you allow these flash messages to be sent over your network, please advise how I can go about finding out who sent me this.

Many thanks

[Anonymous]

Brilliant, thank you.

I suppose because most other companies and other networks like Vodafone have social media teams monitoring their forums, I assumed o2 would be the same!

[Anonymous]

They do monitor and post in the forum.

But for something like your problem, chances of a response that would be acceptable to you, is practically zero......it would end up in a multi-page thread and there are enough of those in the current iPhone 5 climate !!

[Anonymous]

Suppose it would if people keep on replying...and I don't think you are in a position to know what would be acceptable to me! Thanks though.

They point people towards the forum, I haven't ended up here because I want to be here and get told off by members of the public. Knowing how a mobile phone network works, it is a very simple question. My mistake!

Thanks to the others for taking the trouble to get back to me. I have given you Kudos

[jonsie]

Try the email link in my signature. If you get no satisfactory response then go down the official complaints channel and if you still fee strongly enough then you can consider the regulators.

I do agree that these should be outlawed and can imagine the distress this could cause to younger mobile users (depending of course on the content).

It could be construed as another form of bullying and not the big joke it was proported to be when these first came into existence. As in all things they are open to abuse by certain types of people.

Good luck and report back with the eventual outcome, I'm sure we all would be interested.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for being nice!

[jonsie]

I think everyone has iphone fever around here, the depression is very contagious

[Anonymous]

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@jonsie wrote:

I think everyone has iphone fever around here, the depression is very contagious

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But you're still in Bangkok aren't you ?........:smileytongue: