[IP] more on New mobile phone scam
-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:50:51
To:dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc:Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] New mobile phone scam
Dave Farber [2/18/2004 8:34 PM] :
> From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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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