I would be interested to know if anyone else is being hit by this?


A bit of background:

My business is on contract with 2 Degrees for our mobiles, we are on the unlimited plan.


Every month, without fail I get the following text:

"To help stop fraud please quickly confirm you're a real person using this account. Text TALK to 233 now to keep talking."



Naturally, the first time I received this text I ignored it, I didn't give it a second look. It sounded exactly like a automated message fishing for active numbers.
A few days later and my phone cuts off, mid call to a client. I tried to call them back and got a automated message telling me I had to verify I was human. I quickly went through the text process to get back up and going again!

Needless to say, I am not happy. Every month I get one of these texts and every month I MUST reply within a reasonable time frame or I get cut off. This is not what I signed up for!


I am a high volume caller, that is why I am using the Unlimited plan. For the last 3+ months I have been verifying I am human. Surely there could be a few more smarts to the system, identifying if one looks to be a bot or not? I don't have a very predictable pattern.


To top it all off, the confirmation is always the same, a automated system could be programmed to automatically respond to the quoted message, when received. It all seems to be rushed out without a lot of thought.