Re: Why your cell phone is ripe for spam texts in 2012 [telecom]

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:41:09 +0000 (UTC) danny burstein wrote:


<<[1] the trick here is that just about all spam text-sms is transmitted
via an e-mail -> cellphone gateway. Most carriers offer
this via something like sending to: phonenumber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>

Your experience is different than mine. The phone spam that I get is
usually either from a five digit code or sometimes from a "legitimate"
(I use that in parenthesis since I'm not sure what if anything's
legitimate about it since voice calls to the number usually end up
with getting a SIT and the no such number recording.) But the reason
I don't get any "email" related cellphone spam is that if anyone
wishes to reach me via email on my mobile phone I have an "alias" that
I set up on my operator's web site so that any email sent to
[10-digits]@tmomail.net goes into the ether and I never know about it
nor am I charged for receiving such drek. That's not to say that it's
not a problem since it most surely is a problem and doesn't seem to be
a high priority for the mobile operators to fix. I also use a feature
that I found on http://babble.ly/ that lets anyone call me without
actually knowing my number by typing that URL (followed by four
characters) to reach me.
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