Text Message Loans

[kloofnek]

Does any of you AB`S keep getting text messages offering loans,I get them EVERY day and have even text back"STOP" ..but they keep on coming,just had one from BeWise..again..which shows the website address,so I got it up and was going to ring them...there is NO contact number or email address.How can a legit loan company not have this???

[CheekyChops]

Most of them aren't legit, they are based abroad. Unfortunately texting STOP just lets them know that they have got a 'live' mobile number and you may find you get loads more spam now.

[Buenchico]

Report it to the ICO:
https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=138312369469

Also, please tell us that web address so that I can try to find out something about the firm behind it.

[kloofnek]

www.wise-cash.com

[kloofnek]

Buenchico...I have looked at your link and submitted it...thank you

[SlackAlice]

If I get a persistent one, I always add them to my contacts and then 'block' the call. I certainly do not call or answer them.

[kloofnek]

Slack Alice,these are many text messages,mostly with no number.I never answer calls for which I don`t know ...how do you "block" calls?

[SlackAlice]

Sorry misunderstood part of your question, I thought you had the number they had called you from. If there is no number given then your stuck.

[kloofnek]

Still like to know how you block a certain number

[SlackAlice]

Generally, add the phone no. to your address/contact list and call it 'Scam1'.
Select the number as if you were going to phone it, then select the option to 'block' the 'Contact'

[kloofnek]

will try that..thanks

[Buenchico]

Please report that (non-existent) loans company here:
http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_fraud

The domain address (wise-cash.com) is registered via an anonymising service, which no legitimate lender would ever do. People using that website WON'T get a loan but they WILL have provided all of their personal details to fraudsters who can then clean out their bank accounts and go on to defraud others by stealing the identity of the loan applicant.,

[kloofnek]

Tried that Slackalice but cannot find any way to "block"the number,what phone do you have?

[SlackAlice]

Samsung Galaxy Ace 3

[kloofnek]

Oh posher than mine..I have a Nokia Asha 302...bit like a Blackberry to look at.

[zoe76]

I get these often Don't text back stop. If you have Iphone you can block the numbers but if it's like me they just keep coming all from different companies :(

[zoe76]

sorry kloofnek, I submitted before seeing you had mentioned make of your phone.