"Voice Mail System" SMS messages

[djp952]

I spent some time with a surprisingly helpful and willing VZW rep this evening (and she was about 2 miles away from me, so we got to comiserate about the weather), and the problem remains unresolved. We tried enabling VVM on my account, and then turning it off, and I'm still getting the annoying IMs. I of course lied and said I'm running the stock ROM from VZW, threw in a couple "I even did that weird reset thing where you have to type in a code and then dial *228 to reactivate the phone" statements, but to no avail.

The other day I did ask my wife, who was home on leave from DEU around the time this started if she made any mistakes when using my phone, and she fessed up to running Visual Voice Mail, but she hit Cancel instead of Accept. I have no reason to disbelieve this, and told VZW that's what happened. No luck.

My best guess is that just launching VVM and cancelling it is the root cause. Can you guys corrobrate that? I'm still of the mindset it has nothing to do with the ROM, and honestly could re-flash to stock to be certain but am too lazy to do so. I love my "Drellisdee" Imagio too much.

It's not a big deal in the end, so what if there are a few no-cost IMs to clean up now and again, but it's just so ... annoying.