In a couple of days I will be attending the Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona where I will get an update about the latest startups and advances in the mobile technology.

The mobile world crongress is located at:

Fira de Barcelona - Montjuic

If you want to get in touch with me inside there please send email to martin @ movil.be
or simply add me through Facebook.

This is a note about spam because I’m getting about 2 spam SMS a week and I’m starting to get tired of it. The worst ones have been 2 of them sent by my operator (Vodafone) that arrived past midnight. In this entry I reveal some screenshots and the webs where the spam is originated.
Here you can also Download a certified letter I sent to Vodafone (Open office in Spanish)

Letter in . DOC (Windows)

Comercial Dept. Vodafone,

I’m sending this certified letter since I received two SMS after midnight that made me get up and caused bad sleep. So I decided to place a complaint in the Spanish government agency. There they asked me to send this certified letter before placing the complaint.

This are the SMS received in my mobile:
(Place photos or screenshots of the offending messages)

I want my personal mobile number to be removed :
600******** (Adjust to yours)
From all the databases used to send this SMS, that I didn’t opt-in to receive.

If it’s not done immediatly, I will make the corresponding complaints to the goverment agencies that will end up in Fines to Vodafone.

Kind salutations,

****** ******* (Complete name + Vodafone client details)

After this Vodafone stopped sending me SMS’s like this:

Attention to the hour: 00:48.

Following the example we can do the same with other companies:

Estoy sola en casa, no t atreveras a venir verdad ? (Sent from +447802000332)
Created by Dragon Publicidad. Spam sent from Mexico. Can you believe it ? They send this spam from South America!

PUBLI: Hace unos dias una amiga hablo contigo, que envidia, quiero conocerte. Te atreves!!! (Enviado desde +4540599011)

Created by Innova. Could be Innova Telecom ?
I put the link, if they are not them, they will tell me.

SUPERSORTEO.COM: envia 1 SMS al 5767 con el texto TALON (SMS:1,20E + IVA por supuesto!)
This are the brillant people from supersorteo.com they give a lot of gifts in their website among them Spam. You can get it for free after registrating on their website!

In my humble opinion if we all post about this with the probe (screenshot) and links to this offending companies we can make them Rethink their advertising strategies. Let’s make them stop sending this fool SPAM to our mobiles.
SPAM distracts us, is ilegal, it bothers and it’s completely unnecessary. SAY NO TO SPAM!

Recorded with the mobile car holder.

This last three days I’ve been sick and most of the time at home so I’ve been quite bored. Then I found the time to do two things:

• Making a plastic hoder to film from the car with my mobile (this one is the video that I’m presenting below)
• And the second: Turning and old window into an Acoustic blinded one with cheap materials. I have to work a bit more to present this entry…

This are some screenshot’s of the transformation process. You can see it finished here.