Tim
Googling for v762.net brings up a number of complaints similar to yours,
over quite a long time period.
E.g.
http://www.wirelessforums.org/uk-telecom-mobile/strange-phone-message-30
064.html
http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/254733000866
Those suggest that there may be a Kenyan connection, 1und1 just being
the people who sold the domain name. (Oh, and the Google cache - I'm
*not* going direct to the website, thanks, suggests that the v762.net
website just says what I take to be "under construction" in German!)
I can't see any sign that anyone has been successful in stopping them at
source, and the mobile companies don't seem to have been much help :-(
Good luck
Andrew
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> Subject: Help. My mobile phone has been taken over!
>
> I have just entered the 21st century. I have changed my
> mobile contract and got a new phone that has video
> capability. And suddenly, out of the blue, I am getting
> video messages arrive from unnamed senders in my phone. They
> come from http://w03.v762.net which is registered as below.
> The messages are videos, which doubtless cost me money that I
> do not choose to spend, and are videos that I most assuredly
> do not want
>
>
> domain: v762.net
> created: 05-Jul-2007
> last-changed: 05-Jul-2007
> registration-expiration: 05-Jul-2008
>
> nserver: ns55.1und1.de
> nserver: ns56.1und1.de
>
> status: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITED
>
> registrant-firstname: Markus
> registrant-lastname: Schmitz
> registrant-organization: Venista Holding GmbH & Co. KG
> registrant-street1: Landgrafenstr. 106a
> registrant-pcode: 50931
> registrant-city: Koeln
> registrant-ccode: DE
> registrant-phone: +49.721151223430
> registrant-email: [log in to unmask]
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> admin-c-firstname: Markus
> admin-c-lastname: Schmitz
> admin-c-organization: Venista Holding GmbH & Co. KG
> admin-c-street1: Landgrafenstr. 106a
> admin-c-pcode: 50931
> admin-c-city: Koeln
> admin-c-ccode: DE
> admin-c-phone: +49.721151223430
> admin-c-email: [log in to unmask]
>
> tech-c-firstname: Hostmaster
> tech-c-lastname: EINSUNDEINS
> tech-c-organization: 1&1 Internet AG
> tech-c-street1: Brauerstr. 48
> tech-c-pcode: 76135
> tech-c-city: Karlsruhe
> tech-c-ccode: DE
> tech-c-phone: +49.7219137450
> tech-c-fax: +49.7219137420
> tech-c-email: [log in to unmask]
>
> bill-c-firstname: Hostmaster
> bill-c-lastname: EINSUNDEINS
> bill-c-organization: 1&1 Internet AG
> bill-c-street1: Brauerstr. 48
> bill-c-pcode: 76135
> bill-c-city: Karlsruhe
> bill-c-ccode: DE
> bill-c-phone: +49.7219137450
> bill-c-fax: +49.7219137420
> bill-c-email: [log in to unmask]
> I've no idea how or why these messages started and wonder if
> anyone has any advice for me. I have emailed the relevant
> email address, but see no hope of a reply. Vodafone tells me
> that I will have to pay any charges associated with these
> messages - messages that I do not want and never asked for -
> and that I have no hope of recovering the costs or of not
> paying. I must reply with "STOP" to the sender. But there
> is no "reply" option to the messages!
>
> Help guys!
>
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