"Absolutely disgusting," said Lisa Kelly as she shows messages on her cell phone. "Extremely offensive."
In February, the South Jersey wife and mother couldn't stop pornographic text messages coming up on her phone all day long. She called the NBC 10 Investigators because she had to pay for the messages, too.
"I would love to find out who and where they're coming from," Kelly said.
The NBC 10 Investigators found out that one of the Web sites that sent her a text message was R.S. Duffy in Philadelphia.
The address for R.S. Duffy on South Eighth Street was actually home a National Watch & Diamond Exchange jewelry store. It appeared our search had hit a dead end.
Then, computer savvy viewer Noah Webster called us saying, "I saw your story on NBC 10."
"Within half an hour, I found the actual owners," Webster said.
He showed the elusive trail he uncovered on the Internet, beginning with R.S. Duffy at the same address as the National Watch & Diamond Exchange. State records showed the National Watch & Diamond Exchange is owned by Richard Cohen, who is also the CEO of a major Philadelphia company right around the corner at Seventh and Chestnut streets called National A1 Advertising.
"They're the leading provider of phone sex lines, chat lines," Webster said.
A representative for A1 said the company is one of the largest Internet distributors of adult entertainment in the world. The company owns HotMovies.com, providing X-rated movies to over 5 million customers.
"I don't know if I'm free to talk about anything," an employee said on the street.
Employees of A1 wouldn't talk on camera, and neither would Cohen, but we asked about the text messages.
In an e-mail he wrote: "We never, ever would do something like this... We have nothing to do with it... It is another company that we have no relation to. We do get a commission but it's not much." FULL STORY
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I didn't know that people receiving TXT messages had to pay for them. I know Pornteam and some others were discussing TXT porn marketing, does this affect your outlook on it's effectiveness and the problems that could result?
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