I thought I was the only angry one until I saw the following comments from a friend on facebook.

MTN short code 2010 is driving me nuts - one txt to MTN to try n win a lovely KIA and all I get back is a minimum of twenty texts per day, at dawn and at nite - bummer! should’ve listened to my MAMA “mikee……no good thing free n no free thing good.

To be honest, I really wanted to win that KIA as well so I also sent the text and then I was involved in this whole game I was not ready to play. I played it four times and realised my credit was almost gone so I decided that I would never play again, only to realise I was in for the biggest trouble of my mobile life. My phone was subject to what i term mobile spam. Let me try and retrieve some of the text messages and share with you. Check the following out;

MTN: Extend your holiday - win our huge cash jackpot and give yourself a non-stop break from! Reply HOLIDAY.

Since I decided not to play again, I would receive hundreds of messages relating to the 2010 World Cup as punishment for trying in the first place. Can someone tell them I am no longer interested? In their desperation to get me to spend more credits on this, they send me the next text message;

MTN: GASPER, We miss you! Return to the game and win 100,000 GHC. One winner chosen this weekend. Change your life. Reply MISS

Can you imagine, MTN misses me. Is it because they want more of my credits huh! And oh, just as I finished typing the last sentence, I received another one. Well, if I did not want to win that KIA, I wont be in such a predicament.

There are similar stories for ZAIN and tiGO too. But seriously, it is about time we take them on for all this spamming. Sometimes I receive very serious text messages I do not pay attention to because the spams are just too much. Sometimes, I simply do not see the real texts because my inbox is filled to the brim I have to spend precious time deleting these spam messages. I am tired about them, I don’t know about you?