Text messaging spam with Alltel Prepaid Wireless accounts

The first question and I don't want this to come across the wrong way, but, are you 100% sure that they're not just text messages that he is sending and receiving to his friends?

I'm not totally sure that's what Cap3OriginatingSms means, I just checked my family member's prepaid account and I think that's just the online billing code for any text message sent or received on the line, it could also mean 'Cellular Access Provider originating sms'. Try getting him to send an intentional text message to you or somebody else and see how it shows up on the bill. That way you'll know if it's really a scam or if it's possible that he's sending text messages and isn't admitting it. But this line makes me think that the texts might be originating from his or his friends line: "They use numbers he has called to send a text message, then uses his number to reply to their text message; thereby, charging his account double for junk messages. "

If he's not the one sending or receiving the messages, the first thing I would do is call AlltelU tech support. And yes, AlltelU does have a wait time of about 30 mins in my experience which is way too long. But they can pull up a record of who the sender and recipient of each text message is and they can block those numbers from texting to and from your nephew's account. They can actually completely turn off text messaging on the account.

If he's not the one sending or receiving the messages that's the way I'd go about it. If he is the one sending the messages then there are a couple options, to have a talk about responsibility and how you want him to use the phone you bought, or to switch to the pay-per-day plan with unlimited messaging because it's a better deal. Sometimes, especially teens, can get caught up in texting to friends and in the world of icq and aim, don't realize how big of a bill they're running up at 5 cents/pop.

 

Sounds like Premium Messaging to me. He could have signed up for it inadvertantly when downloading the ringtones.

 

from the sounds of this is a Premium SMS Serivce. I believe thats actually how it shows up for prepaid customers "Cap3OriginatingSms"