How to block SMS to short numbers. Protect yourself from mobile fraud

Often MTS, Megafon and Beeline subscribers need to turn off short numbers. This can be done in several ways. All of them are discussed below.

How to disable short numbers on MTS

The following methods will help you disable short numbers on MTS:

Use the free service from MTS “Content Ban”, it will help you disable short numbers. You must call 0890 and then strictly follow the instructions from the auto-informer.
Dial the following command from your mobile phone: *152*2#. This will disable short numbers.
Go to the MTS operator website, register and go to your personal account. In it, select the “My Subscriptions” tab, and then disable the “Sending requests to a short number” option using the corresponding button.

How to disable short numbers on Beeline

You can disable short numbers on Beeline using these methods:

Connect special service"Stop content." It is activated by calling 0858.
Go to a special section of the Beeline website: http://signup.beeline.ru. Review your existing subscriptions and disable those that involve sending messages and making calls to short numbers.
Go to the website of the mobile operator Beeline, go quick registration and go to your personal account. In it you need to select the “Sublists” menu, where you need to uncheck the box next to the line “Calls and SMS to short numbers. Then click on “OK”.

How to disable short numbers on Megafon

The following methods will help you disable short numbers on Megafon:

Send empty message to the number 0500914 or call it. As a result, the “Calls to short numbers” service will be deactivated.
Dial the following command from your mobile phone: *526#. After which you will receive a message saying that you do not have the right to make calls to short numbers.
Go to megafon.ru, go to your personal account and in the “Services” tab, select “Calls to short numbers”. Opposite it you need to click on the “Deactivate” option.

Today I would like to tell you about the MTS Content Ban service.

Perhaps you already have the sad experience of losing money from your account “thanks” to paid subscriptions. If you are thinking about how to protect yourself from such losses in the future, then the most reasonable solution would be MTS from your phone. This is exactly what this article will talk about, but first a few words about who these content providers are and what services they provide.

Content- this is any information that is disseminated through the media, including via the Internet. Content can be both text (printed publications, SMS mailings, websites and WAP sites) and media. Media content includes images, music, ringtones, and video files.

Content provider(content provider, content provider) is the one who owns the content and distributes it to the audience. In the field of cellular communications, a content provider sells its content to subscribers through an operator or independently.

Content services are services that provide subscribers with access to various content(ringtones, music, videos, games, mobile applications) or services provided based on content (dating, horoscope, exchange rates, weather, posters, jokes, etc.).

MTS Content Ban service - what is it?

The “Content Deny” option restricts the subscriber’s access to various infotainment subscriptions provided by content providers. Therefore, if you want to disable access to the services of MTS content providers, you cannot do without “Content Ban”.

How it works?

The “Content Ban” service blocks sending SMS messages and outgoing short calls paid numbers. At the same time, the ban on calls and SMS does not apply to internal MTS services activated by short numbers - all of them will function in previous regime.

Why is this necessary?

Often, sending just one SMS to a short number activates a paid subscription, when the Nth amount of money is debited from the subscriber’s account daily in exchange for providing access to some Internet resource (most often of dubious content). The bill for several days of such a subscription can be very a large sum- up to several thousand rubles. In addition, there are phone viruses, sending SMS to short numbers without the knowledge of the phone owner. The application can send several dozen paid SMS per day, emptying your balance, or simply activate a paid subscription.

Thanks to the “Content Ban” service, sending SMS to short numbers will become impossible, and, therefore, you will not be able to become a subscriber to a paid service or lose money by paying for dozens of expensive messages.

With the “Content Ban” service, you will protect your wallet from unplanned expenses, and you will also be able to limit children’s access to paid content on sites inappropriate for their age.

How much does the MTS Content Ban service cost?

The service is provided free of charge for all MTS subscribers. The operator does not charge a fee for either connection or use of the service.

How to activate the “Content Ban” service on MTS?

The command to activate the service is ✶ 984 #.

You can also activate the “Content Ban” in your “Personal Account” on the MTS website, from your mobile phone number 0890 or 8-800-250-0890 (if you are not calling from an MTS phone) or by personally contacting the MTS service office.

How to disable “Content ban” on MTS?

You can disable the “Content Ban” on MTS yourself using the USSD command ✶ 985 #, or in your “Personal Account”.

You can also deactivate the “Content Ban” by calling the support service at 0890 and 8-800-250-0890 or at the nearest MTS office, where this service will be disabled by a customer service specialist.

When switching to a corporate tariff plan, the “Content Ban” service is disabled automatically.

When sending SMS to a short number, you can accidentally activate a subscription to paid content. In this case, money will be spent from your account, and you will notice it only after a while. To avoid becoming a victim of fraud, you can enable an option called “Content Ban” from MTS. It will block all calls and SMS sent from the content number.

Do you want to protect yourself from unpleasant expenses and also get rid of annoying paid advertising? Then, if you activate the “content blocking” service provided by MTS, you will stop worrying about losing money. This option is ideal for pensioners and children, who are often unwitting victims of short numbers and often lose cash on his own mobile device.

By activating the “content blocking” option from MTS, you no longer need to be afraid that an SMS will be sent from your mobile phone to a short number. Now you don’t have to worry about money on your mobile device and won’t fall into the clutches of scammers.

This service provided by MTS, when connected, will block all SMS received from the content number. When you try to call or send a message to it, “content blocking” is also activated. This is the only service that can disable MTS info. The important thing is that numbers of useful services and SMS banking will not be blocked.

Note! If you are logged in to your MTS “Personal Account”, you will be able to view the services and subscriptions connected to your mobile phone. To do this, you need to register yourself on the MTS website or come to service center mobile operator. You must enter your phone number and SMS. The message of numbers will be your password, which confirms your login to " Personal Area" Then you need to find the “Service Management” tab in the menu (you can disable them there). You will see a table with connected services. This way, you can independently disable unnecessary paid and free services and subscriptions.

Methods for activating the “Content Ban” service

The option to ban paid content from MTS can be activated by visiting any MTS store. You can also receive this service if you call 0890. This is the helpline number. When you call this number, you can also find out about other services you have connected and paid subscriptions. To do this, you should wait for an answer from an MTS consultant. You can also take independent steps to activate the ban option and include it in your list of services. To do this, use your “Personal Account”.

Attention! When calling for information, the operator may ask for passport information.

The connected “Content Ban” service from MTS did not stop the receipt of messages with advertising? Then you need to contact the Antispam service from MTS with a complaint. Send SMS advertising text to 6333. “Content blocking” will not block the message that you sent to this number, since it is a service number. You should expect a response from the service within 24 hours. A message that will soon come from this number will contain information on how to get rid of this advertising.

Methods to disable the “Content Ban” service

To disable the operator’s “Content Prohibition” option and use content numbers, you need to contact the nearest MTS store or call help desk MTS by service number 0890. Disabling this option and banning advertising can be done through the “Personal Account”.

The “content blocking” function from MTS is an excellent option for those who are tired of constant messages from unknown short content numbers.

Nowadays, mobile operators create various additional services faster than new users connect to them. And it is not always possible to understand the abundance of services offered, which only increases every day. But many of them will save not only your nerves, but also your money, if you figure out what’s what in time.

Today we'll talk about one thing very much useful service from MTS content ban. Let's figure out together what a content ban on MTS is, how it is useful, and at the same time we will learn how to enable and disable this function.

MTS content ban, what is it?

MTS content ban is a restriction of subscriber access to various information and entertainment services. In other words, you, as an MTS subscriber, will not be able to call or send SMS to short numbers that are paid.

This is very convenient when you need to restrict access to paid content children or elderly parents.

At the same time, for internal services mobile operator this service is not extended, which means their continued functioning as before.

Why is there a need to ban content on MTS?

Function from operator MTS“Content ban” is a convenient and sometimes very necessary solution to problems associated with scammers and intrusive services.

I believe everyone understands that companies offering cellular communication, always go overboard with the desire to get rich. Of course, they hide this under the guise of “doing good for the client,” but at the same time they do it much better for themselves. Among the huge variety of services (most of which are paid), there are some that are completely useless for you, only you don’t know about them at all, otherwise you would have turned them off. But they exist and are slowly extracting your hard-earned money from your phone.

And who doesn't know about telephone scammers, that they are trying to catch you inattentively and hook you on some service. It will most likely be of dubious content, but this is not even the main thing, but the fact that in a short period of time you will lose all the money that was on the card.

It’s clear that such situations are unpleasant, and what’s the point, they hit not only your wallet, but also your pride. But thanks to the article, you can enable the MTS content ban and sleep peacefully.

A little history: “Content ban 0” MTS

On December 28, 2010, MTS pleased its customers with the “content ban 0” service, thanks to which it became possible to restrict access to various information and entertainment services. This option is additional tool to control your expenses.

And on May 10, 2011, there was a change in the content ban 0 service from MTS, since then messages from all incoming paid numbers have been blocked.

MTS content ban: enable

You can activate the service completely free of charge, but for this you only need:

Call at Contact Center MTS operator number 0890 and talk to the operator personally. Why call? But the fact is that the lines are almost always busy and not everyone has the patience to get through.

If you are the kind of person who does not have enough patience, then you can drive up to the nearest MTS office and turn on the content ban in a matter of minutes. The main thing is to take documents with you to confirm your identity.

You can also try your luck by leaving an electronic application on the company’s website to connect to the service.

There are times when you have already managed to enable content ban for MTS, but a dubious SMS has arrived on your phone, then you should do the following:

Send it to number 6333 or email 911_dog_mts.ru;
Call 0890 and inform the operator.

How to disable content ban on MTS

If you decide to disable the mts content ban, there are different reasons, we won’t go into details, then you should use one of the suggested methods:

Talk to the operator on duty. But as mentioned above, the chance that you will be able to reach 0890 is slim.

Go to the operator’s website and try your luck with the “Internet Assistant”. To do this, you need to go to your account: click the “Personal Account” button, enter your phone number to log in to the system and go to the “My Account” section. In the “Services” tab, you will be given a list possible services. All you have to do is find the one you need and turn it off.

Please note that when you switch to a corporate tariff plan, this service will automatically be disabled. For corporate tariff plan There is a similar service, but it is paid.

As part of my job, I have to test many applications and not all of them inspire confidence. In order not to install numerous and sometimes useless antiviruses, I simply blocked SMS to short numbers on all my phones and now sometimes I receive the message “Service blocked.” After this the last installed application immediately flies into the basket. Of course, if you take part in radio quizzes or otherwise use SMS to short numbers, then this method is not suitable for you. But in all other cases, feel free to block.

In addition to the fact that money is stolen from us via SMS, many users complain that they receive annoying, unnecessary advertising. Remember how much unnecessary services Are you connected from your operator? Do you know how many of them are paid? For example, music instead of beeps, weather and others. Did you know that all this can also be easily and simply turned off? We'll tell you if possible.

MTS

0890 .

Please connect the services:

“Content ban” (banning calls and SMS to short paid numbers)

“Prohibition of receiving information SMS and SMS/MMS from the MTS website”

"Ban receiving SMS with MTS news" (advertising ban)

You can dial *152# - there you can see the list of subscriptions and unsubscribe, as well as see the last 5 paid actions.

Beeline

To disable all paid services, call from your mobile phone the number 0611 .
We connect with the operator and ask you to check whether any paid services are connected, and if they are connected, we ask you to turn everything off.

Please connect the services:

“Black and white lists” (banning calls and SMS to short paid numbers)

"Block" Mobile advertising»» (advertising ban)

“Promotional Prohibition” (prohibition of connection free services, which then become paid)

P.S.: On tariffs with a postpaid payment system, the ability to send SMS to short numbers is initially blocked.

Megaphone

There are two ways to check the cost of SMS to a short number for Megafon subscribers:

Dial USSD command *107*short number#. In response, you will receive information about the cost of the content provider’s services. If several services are assigned to a number (that is, it is possible to send SMS, MMS, and also voice call or USSD request), then for each service it will be generated separate message about the cost.

Send the $ symbol to the short number you are interested in. Please note - the SMS should not contain anything other than the $ symbol! The response message will indicate the cost of sending an SMS to this number.

To disable all paid services, call from your mobile phone the number 0500

Please check whether any paid services are connected, and if they are connected, please disable everything.

Please connect the services:

“Stop content” (blocking SMS sending to paid numbers).
"Refusal SMS mailings» (advertising ban)

“Refusal from “Try&buy”” (prohibition of connecting free services, which later become paid)

In addition, to manage the “Banning” service paid services» you can dial the USSD command *526# or call the number 0500914 . Calls to these numbers are free.

You can activate the Stop Content service from your phone using the command *105*801# or activate through the Service Guide system. The service is provided free of charge.

Tele 2

Check the cost of SMS to a short number from Tele2: dial on your phone *125*ХХХХ# and press the call key, where XXXX is a short number for SMS.

To enable the “Ban SMS to short numbers” service, please contact the helpline at 611 .

P.S.: The above methods work for subscribers in the central region of Russia. The rest have not been tested, but should work everywhere.

If your operator is not on the list, but you also suffered from mobile fraud, indicate the name of the operator in the comments and we will let you know whether you can disable the SMS service to short numbers.

Remember that all these services will not save you 100% from all advertising, intrusive services and mobile fraud. The main thing is your consciousness and prudence. Do not install unknown applications, do not send SMS to short numbers yourself and everything will be fine. But the above steps It's better to do it anyway. As they say, God protects those who are careful. I especially recommend connecting all these services to mobile phones children and old people, because they most often fall for the tricks of scammers.

Good luck! Take care of yourself and your loved ones.