how do i prevent myself receiving annoying texts which i think i am being charged for?

[nowwearefour]

they suddenly started a cuople of weeks ago and i kept replying stop as they said to opt out send stop. my bill is higher than it usually is (forgotten online passwords makes checking it difficult) so i suspect i have been charged for replying with stop and in any case it isnt working. i remember going to some quango once and getting the money back from these unsolicited messages- about accidents etc but cant find anything about it using google. anyone any advice?

Just ignore them and delete them each day.

Easy to say I know, but its like these landline autodialers, once they know the phone is a valid number, they will keep at it. If you don't reply at all, they can't do anything about it, they will eventually get tired of sending them and will stop. I know, as I've had it happen to me.

In the meantime, let your service provider know of this and the return text number. They can block them from their end. Its such a shame that we can't turn off the text service on our mobiles, like we can on landlines.

thank you jancolls. weird. that is why they say to opt out text stop. hmmmmm.