What Happens to Privacy Nowadays?

In the middle of the night, my phone received a text message. I thought it was something important from my wife because we were living 300km apart, but I was quite dismayed when I read:

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Consider my surprise when this sequence of messages happened:

First, I got a message from 36670 saying:

Delivery report

Delivered

28/01/2016
16:21:50

Then, this message arrived:

RM0.00. Successful registration. No subscription fee. Price: RM3.00/SMS. 2sms/Day. Renewal on 28/02/2016. to cancel, send STOP IO01 to 36670.

28/01/2016
16:22:56

I promptly replied by sending STOP IO01 to 36670. A couple of minutes later, this arrived:

RM0.00: Your subscription to IO01 has been terminated. Thank you for your patronage. Helpline 03-80600842

28/01/2016
16:24:07

Can you imagine what will happen if I ignored the first message?

This came two weeks earlier:

RM0: Thanks for subscribed to MMS COSPLAY-weekly. 3MMS/week. 1st week FREE,after that, RM1.5 weekly. To stop, reply STOP MCOSPLAY, iSentric Hotline:0378051134

15/01/2016
16:11:16

Yes, I immediately replied to stop the subscription.

RM0.00: You hv successfully unsubscribed the MCOSPLAY service. To subscribe again, send ON MCOSPLAY to 23233.

15/01/2016
16:12:57

Those two subscription-forcing messages were actually continuations from the first chain of messages with 33282:

Delivery report

Delivered

01/12/2015
17:27:37

RM0.00. Successful registration.No sub fee.Price:RM3.00/SMS.Price may reduce.2sms/Day.Renewal on 01/01.2016.To cancel,send STOP HV to 33282.

01/12/2015
17:27:56

RM0.00: Your subscription to HV has been terminated. Thank you for your patronage. Helpline 038063550

01/12/2015
17:34:00
 


Thanks, but no thanks.