Spammers—the ultimate villains in the era of technology. We pretty much have our junk mail taken care of thanks to email applications’ filter options. But now, there’s a new evolution of spammers who literally follow you everywhere you go by sending SpaSMS (spam+sms) to your mobile phone. Here’s a breakdown of spam fighting services available for each cellular network.

AIS

Call Center: 1175
AIS can help you fight off the SpaSMS only if you know the sender’s number. However, there are cases where the sender’s name shows instead of a number (such as ones from banks, events, etc.). In that case you would have to call the culprits yourself. Once you know the number, you can call the AIS call center and have them block it. AIS also has a call screening service where you can automatically ignore calls from up to 10 specific phone numbers. It will cost you B30 a month, though.

DTAC

Call Center: 1678
Although they don’t have a policy on blocking numbers, you can contact them and report spaSMSers. Write down the sender’s name and/or number and the message details and give the info to DTAC. They can then investigate if it’s a service you have registered for or if it’s a spamathon. If it’s the latter, they can act on the case. DTAC does has an excellent tool to fight another kind of cellular annoyance—private numbers. Their B10 “No Number No Talk” service can automatically ignore those anonymous calls.

True

Call Center: 1331
Yeah, True has everything—internet, music, cable TV and a cellular network—but they’re pretty far behind others in terms of dealing with the nasty byproductsß of advanced technology. Your only solution is to be a spammer yourself and repeadetly ring their call center and hope that they will get the message.