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Spam and Text Messaging
The annual number of "spam" text messages sent to mobile phone users in Britain has doubled in the last two years to two billion claims a report in the Sunday Mirror. "While SPAM is certainly on the rise, it seems unlikely that it has reached 10% in the UK" said Mike Grenville. While there are no official figures, Mike Short, Chairman of the MDA agrees, "My best guess would be 80,000 spam messages for this year" of the 20 billion, "with 70% of them coming from sources outside the UK" he added. In Japan estimates put 95-98% of all email traffic across the i-mode servers to be spam. "We are never going reach Japanes levels of spam here because the situation is completely different" said Mike Grenville, from 160 Characters. Two key factors have led to these levels of spam in Japan: firstly the sender does not pay so the cost is the same as email and secondly the address structure made it simple for spammers to work our your phone address. [160characters.org] |
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