Have been getting telemarketing category of spam SMSes for quite some time and getting used to those. However spam category of spam SMSes have started giving competition to telemarketers these days, like the following SMS that I got few minutes back. It goes like
Number: TM-SPDC UK
Content:
Congratulations! You have won $3,000,000 in this year's Shell Mobile Draw with pin SPDC-IN. To claim, e-mail your pin to Rev. Williams on: wmark1529@yahoo.com
Registering in NDNC (National Do Not Call) registery or DND (Do Not Disturb) lists of service providers has resulted in lesser number of advertisement calls, and at times when you tell the telemarketeer lady about your NDNC/DND registration, they are prompt to end the call and often take care to update their database(hopefully) about whom to call and not call.
What about the Junk/Unwanted SMSes? High time that technology upgrades are made to detect SMSes sent in bulk at service provider end (and in handset?) and marking those as spam in mobile inbox. May be, we need to add some new header bits/bytes in SMS protocol for this and move on to SMS v3.0, sooner the better.
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