L’Oreal Paris has been spamming my iPhone with text messages selling products. Obviously this is not coming directly from L’Oreal but they have hired an outside company to do it in the same way Reebok might hire graffiti writers under the table to spray logos on the sidewalk in the East Village.

Only the major difference is I am personally charged each time I receive a text. Even if I don’t want it. I called AT&T to see if they could stop it. They can’t. I told them this is illegal and L’Oreal should be prosecuted but they said they can’t trace the text and there’s no Do Not Text Registry so I can’t stop it from happening in the future.

They also said I can’t set my iPhone to block text messages from people not in my contact list.

My only option is to remove text messaging from my phone entirely. But I don’t want to do that.

I’m going to look into other options online and see how other people are dealing with this issue of spam text messages. There has to be a way to stop this unwanted spamming.