NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mobile phone spam

Mobile phone spam is a form of spamming directed at the text messaging service of a mobile phone. It is described as mobile spamming, SMS spam or SpaSMS but is most frequently referred to as m-spam. A KMail folder full of spam emails collected over a few days. ... Text messaging on a mobile with keyboard Text messaging, or texting is the common term for the sending of short (160 characters or fewer, including spaces) text messages from mobile phones using the Short Message Service (SMS). ...

As the popularity of mobile phones surged in the early 2000s, frequent users of text messaging began to see an increase in the number of unsolicited (and generally unwanted) commercial advertisements being sent to their telephones through text messaging. This can be particularly annoying for the recipient, because unlike with email, it is usually difficult or impossible to delete the message without reading it. In the future, some telcos believe that SMS spam is going to be the next big problem as the fast development of technology allows relatively cheap ways to send SMS spam using the internet. For other uses, see SMS (disambiguation). ...

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Whether in the form of the consumer attempting to defraud the telephone company, the telephone company attempting to defraud the consumer, or a third party attempting to defraud either of them, fraud has been a part of the telephone system almost from the beginning. ...

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A DNS Blacklist, or DNSBL (definition below), is a means by which an Internet site may publish a list of IP addresses that some people may want to avoid and in a format which can be easily queried by computer programs on the Internet. ... A spambot is a program designed to collect, or harvest, e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-mail, also known as spam. ... A pink contract is an agreement between an email spammer and his Internet service provider. ... An auto-dialer is an electronic device that can automatically dial telephone numbers to communicate between any two points in the telephone, mobile phone and pager networks. ... Flyposting is the act of placing advertising posters or flyers in illegal places. ... Junk faxes are unsolicited advertising via fax transmission. ... Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging services. ... Newsgroup spam is a type of spam where the targets are Usenet newsgroups. ... Telemarketing office Telemarketing is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson uses the telephone to solicit prospective customers to buy products or services. ... VoIP spam, also called vamming, is the proliferation of unwanted, automatically-dialed, pre-recorded phone calls using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). ... To prevent e-mail spam, both end users and administrators of e-mail systems use various anti-spam techniques. ... Disposable e-mail addressing (DEA) refers to an alternative way of sharing and managing e-mail addressing. ... Ensuring a valid identity on an e-mail has become a vital first step in stopping spam, forgery, fraud, and even more serious crimes. ... SORBS (Spam and Open Relay Blocking System) is a controversial open proxy and open mail relay DNSBL. It has been augmented with complementary lists that include various other classes of hosts, allowing for customized email rejection by its users. ... SpamCop is a free spam reporting service, allowing recipients of unsolicited bulk email (UBE) and unsolicited commercial email (UCE) to report the offense to the senders Internet Service Provider (ISP), and sometimes their web host. ... The Spamhaus Project is a volunteer effort founded by Steve Linford in 1998 that aims to track e-mail spammers and spam-related activity. ... List poisoning is a tactic for detecting or diverting e-mail spammers by tricking them into including invalid addresses into mailing lists. ... Bayesian spam filtering (pronounced Bays-ee-en, IPA pronunciation: , after Rev. ... Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deliberately creating web pages which will be indexed by search engines in order to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page... Keyword stuffing is considered to be an unethical Search engine optimization (SEO) technique. ... Example of a Google bomb. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... On the World Wide Web, a link farm is any group of web pages that all hyperlink to every other page in the group. ... A webring in general is a collection of websites from around the Internet joined together in a circular structure. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Doorway pages are web pages that are created for spamdexing, this is, for spamming the index of a search engine by inserting results for particular phrases with the purpose of sending you to a different page. ... URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, is a technique on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs. ... Link spam (also called blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamming or spamdexing that recently became publicized most often when targeting weblogs (or blogs), but also affects wikis (where it is often called wikispam), guestbooks, and online discussion boards. ... Sping is short for ping spam. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (Ping Server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing. ... Referer spam is a kind of spamdexing (spamming aimed at search engines). ... The term Internet fraud generally refers to any type of fraud scheme that uses one or more online services - such as chat rooms, e-mail, message boards, or Web sites - to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial... An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. ... A typical lottery scam begins with an unexpected email notification that You have won! a large sum of money in a lottery. ... Make money fast is a title of an electronically forwarded chain letter which became so infamous that the term is now used to describe all sorts of chain letters forwarded over the Internet, by e-mail spam or Usenet newsgroups. ... Microcap stock fraud, also known as microcap fraud, is a form of securities fraud involving stocks of microcap companies, generally defined as having a market capitalization of under $250 million. ... An example of a phishing e-mail, disguised as an official e-mail from a (fictional) bank. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

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