This is a huge phishing fraud and a scam. These shills are trying to capture the numbers of suckers so they can continue to spam them and sell the numbers to other scam/fraud artists.
Don't be fooled - this is a scam and a fraud folks!
I think we can all agree that B2C should not be this intrusive and any companies that believe this is an acceptable method of ad delivery must be shown that it is not.
Here is the contact information of the party that is apparently launching these campaigns based off of information from another poster.
Name: Chris F Westphal
Birthdate: 8/12/1943 (68 years)
Address: 6726 Brentford Rd Sarasota, FL 34241 (As of 9/2007)
Previous Residence: 910 W Thomas St, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 (1987)
Alternate Phone #s: 941-377-1590 941-792-5182 941-322-8087 847-670-9544 239-368-0915 239-793-1500 630-855-2312 630-855-6816 630-289-2791
Court Filings: Chapter 7 filings in 1995 and 2009 both discharged
Name: James Dclaydon
Birthdate: 04/21/1952 (59)
Address: 4104 Bent Tree Blvd, Sarasota, FL 34241 (2011)
Address 2: 5222 S Sherwood Forest Blvd # 244, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 (2000)
Phone #s: 941-377-3167 941-812-3259 941-378-4080 941-312-5459 941-429-1204 941-925-8343 941-330-1766 941-954-5578 941-346-9896 941-923-6604 941-312-5458 941-312-9016 941-346-5075 941-554-8869
This is now my 3rd text from this "service", for each additional text I receive I will post the information of a relative. I think that is a fair trade, but something I would rather not do.
Find another method, and for gods sake, get some sort of web presence so you don't look like you were just hacked.
Text & Notification Bar ads will not be tolerated and those who force them upon us will be outed into the open to hear the opinions of those they are targeting.