Are you tired of receiving commercial or scam messages and calls on your phone? Use this free service to report spam and fraud and have numbers blocked by carriers.
Like many cell phone users, you must regularly receive unsolicited text messages and calls. Painful requests, mostly promotional in nature, to offer you renovations, training related to the CPF, telephone tariffs, solar panels or all kinds of promotions. But beyond this spam, there are also increasingly dangerous requests: phishing attempts. By imitating legitimate and official messages, they aim to deceive you and redirect you to a website or an intercepted form to recover your sensitive personal and banking details, if not just to trick you into paying a high Price to call a premium tariff number. And any excuse is good to lure you into sometimes very well-crafted traps: a missed delivery, a fine to pay, updating your Vitale card or even getting a Crit'Air sticker… The crooks dare everything, and they don't. There is no lack of imagination!
Fortunately, in addition to blocking calls from unknown numbers, which you can activate on your smartphone, there are several ways to combat these scourges. Among them is a little-known but increasingly popular one: it is the 33700, a platform created a few years ago by the French Association for the Development of Multi-Operator Multimedia Services and Uses (AF2M), which brings together in particular the major French operators (Bouygues Telecom, Free, Orange and SFR). This service allows you to report unwanted text messages and calls. For most operators (Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR, NRJ Mobile, Crédit Mutuel Mobile, CIC Mobile, Cofidis Mobile and Auchan Telecom) it is free – for others the service may cost the price of a normal SMS.
The platform is very easy to use. Simply forward the SMS to 33700 or, if it's a call, forward the number marked “Spamvocal” to create a report. You will then receive an acknowledgment of receipt asking you to provide the spam sender number and other additional information, such as: B. the name of the sender and the date and time you received the spam. The platform will then send you a thank you SMS to complete the report. Note that you can also visit the website by filling out a form or submitting a screenshot. A qualification phase of the message then begins, carried out by the operator in question to determine whether it is actually spam. If this is the case, he must do what is necessary to persuade the service provider to stop his practices – it can even go as far as cutting the number. Please note that multiple notifications must be sent via 33700 for the number to be considered. Note that in case of attempted fraud, you can also report it to the Signal spam platform – just register for free – or to the government platform Pharos.
Certainly 33700 has no immediate effect. However, by providing this service with your reports, you will help identify and eliminate spammers and scammers more quickly. Especially since the platform can act at the source because it is managed by the operators themselves!
Please note that some commercial SMS messages are not spam. This includes, for example, promotions or offers for services to which you may have subscribed in the past, for example from your mobile phone provider or from stores of which you are a customer. If you no longer wish to receive it, simply reply STOP to this message. A simple and free operation.