200-Million Spam Text Messages Hit Chinese Cell Phones
There's little more irritating than getting spam text messages on your cell phone, especially when your plan has you stuck paying for each message that comes in. Thankfully, phone spam is a fairly isolated problem here in the U.S. In China, however, it's another story entirely, as nearly half of all the cell phone users in the country recently got hit with a flood of spam text messages.
Last week, over 200-million spam messages were sent to subscribers of China's two largest mobile providers, China Mobile and China Unicom. The messages originated from seven different advertising firms, which took advantage of security lapses at the two service providers to send out the blasts. Those advertising firms have been apparently blocked from future spam attempts, but it remains to be seen whether they'll face prosecution or not.
Here's hoping.
From BBC News
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