more on New mobile phone scam

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:50:51 
To:dave () farber net
Cc:Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk>
Subject: Re: [IP] New mobile phone scam

Dave Farber  [2/18/2004 8:34 PM] :

> From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk>
> > Mobile phone users are facing the biggest spam nuisance to date as 
> > computers bombard thousands of phones with a new scam called "missed 
> > call marketing", the Guardian can reveal.

Not that new.

NTT DoCoMo's keitai / iMode phones were bombarded heavily with this till 
several months back (they call it "wangiri" / "one ring" in Japan, and 
dialing the missed call would play you a pitch for a "deai" site .. a 
"dating" site that actually offered "paid escorts")

I think they put quite a few measures in place (such as not logging a 
missed call on a single ring, for starters, besides going after the 
phone spammers legally)

        srs

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