Text Message Spam
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I'm not into text messaging. If I do it 10 times a year, it's because my business partners are unavailable. So I don't know squat about the costs. But yesterday my phone beeped and said I had a text message. It was spam (just like email, touting some pos stock promotion). I thought that text messages were cost prohibitive to send in mass quantities. So that got me to thinking. What if the cellular companies started offering free options on text messaging. Will we be inundated with spam messages (spam email)? And what can we do to stop that? I think it'll be a huge problem if our text message inboxes get inundated with spam. What do you all think of it? This is my first experience with this type of thing.
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I'm not into text messaging. If I do it 10 times a year, it's because my business partners are unavailable. So I don't know squat about the costs. But yesterday my phone beeped and said I had a text message. It was spam (just like email, touting some pos stock promotion). I thought that text messages were cost prohibitive to send in mass quantities. So that got me to thinking. What if the cellular companies started offering free options on text messaging. Will we be inundated with spam messages (spam email)? And what can we do to stop that? I think it'll be a huge problem if our text message inboxes get inundated with spam. What do you all think of it? This is my first experience with this type of thing.
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Well it already started I think. I got at least 5 messages everyday from my Cellphone operator that includes product promos, dump offers, weird GPRS links etc. :mad:
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I've gotten some messages from my cellphone operator also. I can deal with that (it's just ad's from them like any commercial you see on TV). But imagine if your email spam folder ended up being your cellphone inbox! How the heck do you stop it?
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I'm not into text messaging. If I do it 10 times a year, it's because my business partners are unavailable. So I don't know squat about the costs. But yesterday my phone beeped and said I had a text message. It was spam (just like email, touting some pos stock promotion). I thought that text messages were cost prohibitive to send in mass quantities. So that got me to thinking. What if the cellular companies started offering free options on text messaging. Will we be inundated with spam messages (spam email)? And what can we do to stop that? I think it'll be a huge problem if our text message inboxes get inundated with spam. What do you all think of it? This is my first experience with this type of thing.
Bert delaVega wrote:
I'm not into text messaging. If I do it 10 times a year
That's more than I ever text... :laugh:
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I've gotten some messages from my cellphone operator also. I can deal with that (it's just ad's from them like any commercial you see on TV). But imagine if your email spam folder ended up being your cellphone inbox! How the heck do you stop it?
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Well it already started I think. I got at least 5 messages everyday from my Cellphone operator that includes product promos, dump offers, weird GPRS links etc. :mad:
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ne0h wrote:
I got at least 5 messages everyday from my Cellphone operator that includes product promos, dump offers, weird GPRS links etc.
Thats like insane.. :^) I get like max 1 msg per week usualy saying something like visit our web portal at http://... and blah blah to give us more of your money.. :|
//Johannes
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I'm not into text messaging. If I do it 10 times a year, it's because my business partners are unavailable. So I don't know squat about the costs. But yesterday my phone beeped and said I had a text message. It was spam (just like email, touting some pos stock promotion). I thought that text messages were cost prohibitive to send in mass quantities. So that got me to thinking. What if the cellular companies started offering free options on text messaging. Will we be inundated with spam messages (spam email)? And what can we do to stop that? I think it'll be a huge problem if our text message inboxes get inundated with spam. What do you all think of it? This is my first experience with this type of thing.
I send about twenty text messages a week, and receive about the same number. Texts are great when you need to say something but don't want to risk interrupting the other person if they are working, driving, etc. I believe I've probably had 2 spam messages so far this year, one was from my provider offering me something and the other was from a promotion that I once signed up for but then never used. All of my numbers (mobile, home and office) are listed on the telephone preference service as "do not spam", and it seems to be working very effectively. If the operators start offering free messages to spammers, that doesn't bother me at the moment because unlike e-mail, text messages have a traceable route attached to them and the TPS levies heavy fines for any company who breaks their rules -- even accidentally.
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I'm not into text messaging. If I do it 10 times a year, it's because my business partners are unavailable. So I don't know squat about the costs. But yesterday my phone beeped and said I had a text message. It was spam (just like email, touting some pos stock promotion). I thought that text messages were cost prohibitive to send in mass quantities. So that got me to thinking. What if the cellular companies started offering free options on text messaging. Will we be inundated with spam messages (spam email)? And what can we do to stop that? I think it'll be a huge problem if our text message inboxes get inundated with spam. What do you all think of it? This is my first experience with this type of thing.
In Britain, SMS is always free to receive and most people have a plan where it's free to send or virtually so. I haven't experienced any trouble with spam texts, I occasionally get offers from my phone provider, but little else. OTOH, I don't download ringtones or games, or give out my mobile number to anyone I don't know face-to-face, so YMMV.