I keep getting junk text messages from 'Ladbrokes' even though i have put it on the junk list and also put the keyword 'ladbrokes' in the junk list.

The damn texts keep coming and my phone is beeping as if i got a real text, but its junk, and the phone knows its junk, but keeps doing it anyway??

Put the phone in the junk/rubbish bin and next time don't lend it to a gambler.

Did you signup to origin/EA recently?

Have you tried calling Ladbrokes to get your number removed?

I am inclined to think the first part of that sentence is the answer!

No gamblers touched it. All the texts are addressed to someone called Jordan Finn..... i do not think Jordan Finn ever existed, i think Ladbrokes sends out texts to random numbers with random names... someone in their sales department must have got that idea from scam emails.... i think this is just very creepy solicitation by a scumbag slimy company.

There is an unsubscribe option, but i would never click on any link in a text from such a untrustworthy source.

Spoofing names and numbers is a pretty common scam tactic. I can't help but laugh when I clear out my spam emails and see that apparently at some point between being asleep and awake I sent myself a piece of spam mail advertising a hot new Chinese remedy or a Russian mail-order bride.

Email is an entirely different world to text.... i could talk all day about the email scams i see.... the latest one being designed to look like it is from PayPal, so, heads up!

I'm not saying otherwise, but the common practices apply no matter the medium.

I suppose if i had this issue with email, it would be like a spam email continually appearing in your inbox when you already specified it as spam.

If a spam email defeats the spam filter like that, it is a cause for concern! But i dont know if it is just my dumb fone being dumb or Ladbrokes have figured out a way around the spam filter??

I may have misinterpreted what you were going for and for that, I apologize.

My response with the email example wasn't necessarily to mean that you should expect the same outcome, just that the people running these kinds of lunkheaded scams tend to use the exact same methods to get them into places they hope people will see and fall for them. This typically includes spoofing names and numbers (and email addresses or really any other info that they can fake) in the hopes that you'd see a name like the one tied to this Ladbrokes garbage and get suckered in by it.

The more lazy versions like the ones in my email that clearly don't come from me are easy to dismiss and filter out, certainly (rarely, very rarely, do they make it out of the spam inbox). I've also had ones using family members' names and emails (yet not actually being sent from their emails at all) in hopes that I'd be dumb enough to dive into that trash.

I don't know the ins and outs of text messaging enough to posit a theory on how they're able to circumvent the blocking methods in such a system unfortunately.

Sounds about right, we have a private number (landline) but it doesn't stop the scammers from the Philippines/India/Malaysia from trying to scam us with threats that the NBN is being cut off. Thing is,as far as I'm concerned they can stick the NBN right up their rear end.

NBN... Am i the only one who thinks the NBN is about the government wanting to control something they previously could not control? (the internet)
For some reason, our Australian government really hates things that they cannot control, and eventually something will pop up that gives them control of it - interesting isn't it?

Of course the irony is, they do not want to control the economy, they want to privatize everything.... i can never quite wrap my head around the way our government operates?? I say if they want to privatize everything and dont want to run the show, then why are they there? can we privatize the government??

Don't they by law(any company on phones) have to adhere to that unsubscribe button and do what it tells them to do/not make fake unsubscribe buttons that do bad things? I believe so. And if yer gonna toss it then what harm can come from pressing unsubscribe and giving it a shot? Good luck with whatever you choose to do, at any rate.

Apart from the fact that i would not trust an online gambling company like Ladbrokes despite the law... Where is the guarantee the texts are even from them to begin with?

As for what harm can come from clicking the unsubscribe link? Probably nothing, but possibly very very bad things can happen as a result of identity theft and other things.

Maybe it was actually a Samsung Galaxy BabaJ1.

(Sorry, couldn't resist).