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Sendroid Push Notifications

First I guess I should say that I'm using a Galaxy S3 from T-Mobile.

I'm loving the phone, overall it works wonderfully but I've been getting these annoying push notifications with red, sometimes yellow stars next to them, and they say things like "Summer Jobs Available! $15 An hour!" and "Your Phone May Have Virus!" (In poor English) so I definitely think I've got some spam on my hands.

How did I get this on my phone and how can I get rid of it? I also get new windows opening up randomly in my browser that direct to "Stimulus Jobs.Net" and I don't how to stop those either, it seems each new page I open in the browser brings along with it one of those pop up pages.

I'm back to smartphone world since a long time away and some major OS improvements so I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing. Any help would be great, excuse my ignorance. Thanks
 
It could be aggressive advertising, known as AirPush and similar.

The app which had created that mess might be still on your phone ... recently installed or updated.
To find that culprit app install an AirPush detector like
Lookout Ad Network Detector

Detailed infos in the forum are here ...
Push Advertising

Harry
 
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