16143 Russia embraced the new subspecies spam

Russia embraced the new subspecies spam



Россию охватил новый подвид спама

The Russian subscribers of telephone companies was attacked by a new kind of spam that encourage you to make phone calls and receive Intrusive ads. Unscrupulous businessmen managed to bypass all the restrictions existing in Russian legislation. According to the respondents the analytical company Telecom Daily lawyers, this type of spam is not prohibited by the legislation in force. The data of the survey of companies also shows that almost 65% of subscribers of telephone companies faced with this new kind of advertising spam (according to a poll, 3 thousand citizens of the Russian Federation).

Technology methods of this spam is that the scammers are programming the system to commit auto-dial telephone numbers. Incoming to the subscriber telephone signal interrupted after the first call, but the device is not answered unknown number. The user calls back to the recognized number and receives a portion of unwanted advertising. The number of this type spamaway advertising has been increasing over the last six months by nearly 50 percent, however, according to Antimonopoly service to limit this kind of spam is impossible under current legislation.

First phone spam appeared in Japan, where the scammers thus forcing subscribers to call a toll number. This kind of spam in Japan called Wangiri, fortunately while kind of Japanese spam in Russia only used for promotional purposes.

Source: News

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