So today, for the first time, I received spam on my mobile phone. That’s right, I got spammed to my phone! And the worst part is, that I don’t have much of a leg to stand on trying to defend myself from it. It was obvious that it was tailored for SMS. The email was very short, contained no HTML or anything else.
Not like I’m going to scream “the sky is falling”, but if I got as much spam to my mobile phone email address as I do to my personal inbox, I’d be inundated and the notifications I use for business reasons would be useless since I’d tend to disregard my SMS notifications. I wonder if Sprint has something set up to “only allow SMS messages from foo” or something. Considering that they underplay SMS on their phones anyway (they encourage you to set up a gateway server and a $3,000 product instead), I doubt they will want to do anything about it.
Then again, I wonder if I brought it upon myself. The other day, I became a registered user at 3gupload.com. It’s an incredibly convenient service, where I can upload ringtones, games, pictures, etc. to my “locker” on their site, and then be able to transfer the stuff to my phone over-the-air. But I wonder if I was a victim of a drive-by spamming, or did I open myself up to it by giving my SMS address to what is reputed to be a legitimate service?
SMS…
AT&T recently came under fire for selling ad time on their SMS network. Basically, they told a few advertisers “give us some cash and we’ll send your message to everyone”. They’re dumb.