GSMA and Cloudmark cooking up an SMS spam reporting system
If you get just five spam
text messages a day then consider yourselves lucky, as a Chinese mobile
user could easily amass at least 30 messages daily, according to
Cloudmark. Fortunately, said company has been working with GSMA and
various network operators on building an SMS spam reporting system,
which should help drastically reduce worldwide cellphone spam. The idea
is rather simple: in a multi-country trial that ended last December,
participants from AT&T, Bell Mobility, SFR, Sprint, Vodafone, Korea
Telecom, and the Korean Internet & Security Agency forwarded suspect
spam to "7726," which is short code for "spam." Cloudmark's cloud-based
system would then be able to identify and block these messages in the
future, be it scams, linkbaits, or just ads from perverse companies.
While this sounds like a perfect solution, it's not entirely clear how
much this service would cost the operators, but hey, it's never too
early to start a petition if you need it that badly.
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