Troubling New"spam" to Cell Phones Discovered
Troubling new"Spam" to Cell Phones Discovered
In a day and age when spam is rampant on the internet, now our phones, especially cell phones through text messaging are now the target.
With the advent of auto-dialers, autodialler, or automatic calling unit is an electronic device that can automatically dial telephone numbers to communicate between any two points in the telephone, mobile phone and pager networks. Once the call has been established (through the telephone exchange) the autodialer will announce verbal messages or transmit digital data (like SMS messages) to the called party.
A key technology for autodialers is the ability to detect live human pickup and answering machine. Since there is no indication/hardware signal when a call is answered by an answering machine or voicemail system, autodialer systems have to analyze incoming audio in order to make a prediction. Today, there is no algorithm that can achieve 100% accuracy.
Telemarketer Auto Dialer
An enterprise grade dialer must provide two key features. First, it must be capable of making large number of simultaneous phone calls; and second, it must provide an application programming interface (API) for system integration. Almost all enterprise grade autodialers employ computer networking technology, since voice boards have fixed number of ports and cannot be scaled up. In order to make 2000 simultaneous phone calls, for example, a group of computers have to be linked together to provide the support for that many phone lines.
Some advanced enterprise dialers are distributed dialers, i.e., independent dialers that are linked together through the Internet and controlled by a call dispatching program. With distributed computing, there is virtually no limit on scalability. All distributed dialers, by definition, can be accessed remotely.
PC to Phone Auto Dialer broadcast voice messages like a robot. It is ideal for group event reminders, marketing or political campaign promotion, events notification and more. Excel spreadsheet interface makes it easy to create or import any phone list. Simply record your message in an audio file and then use the built-in calendar to set a call time with built in remote access capability.
As an internet marketer of Your Travel Buddy Vacation Rentals, a free vacation rental directory and Fortune Hi Tech Marketing and Zurvita home based businesses, I am troubled by this. Why am I troubled by the use of auto dialers? For one, I now receive and average of 6-8 calls per day to my personal cell phone from every home based business opportunity on the internet, and this is new technology. Wait another year as this service becomes more popular, you can bet an internet marketer such as myself can expect hundreds of calls a day!
But internet marketers are not the only ones that we be affected by the use of auto dialers. Just like email lists for spam, they will be companies that sell phone numbers for the purpose of making money selling lists to these new phone spammers.
What if your phone is on the "NATIONAL, DO NOT CALL REGISTERY"? Well it does not seem to matter as my cell phone has been on the registry since its inception and I still get blasted.
These services state in their advertisements that their "lists" are scrubbed against the National Do Not Call Registry, and there is no fear of being in violation is utterly false, I am a prime example.
The newest version of the auto dialer is to allow spam through text messaging. URRRG. I am snot sure how to combat this new form of spam, but I can tell you that it is going to get worse.
I only recourse will be to remove my name, number and email address from all my promotion material for my home based business and change my phone number and hope that people that want to join my home based business opportunities can find me.
Here is a copy of a "spam" email message I received about "spamming" cell phones through text messaging"
SEND ADS TO Cell PHONES TO REACH MORE PEOPLE
BY USING OUR NEW WEB-2-PHONE TECHNOLOGY.
New Technology Allows You to Send Email
Advertisements to the Cell Phones Of Over
135,000 People!
"We Guarantee 100% of All Ads Will Be Opened
& Read!"
Welcome to Web-To-Phone, the internet marketers
Newest and quite possibly most effective way to
Drive sales. For years marketers have used all
The conventional means to generate income online;
Safe lists, solo ads, surfing programs, paid-to-
Read-email, you name it.
I removed the link because I do not want to promote spam
The concept is simple. We use SMS which is a text-
Based "Short Messaging Service" that allows mobile
Phones to support packet-based text messaging.
While we can't send economically or practically
To all 2.5 billion cell phones on the planet, we
Have amassed over 135,000 opt-inn's and that's a
Pretty hefty number for a new service like ours!
When your submission is finished you will receive
Notification and feel confident that your ad is on
It's way.
Give us a try today and branch out into virgin
Territory with your product and service offers
And our no questions asked money back guarantee
Insures your complete satisfaction.
"A Lifetime Membership Is Only $29.95 & Never
Another Cent!"
There you have, the latest and greatest spam tools are now available to the masses for less than $30.00. Your phone number will be sold thousands of times over and over every time a another new customer applies for this service and a new phone and text messaging spam service opens up and there will be hundreds if not thousands of the spam services available in the next few years.
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Brent Vanderstelt is owner of Hess Lake Vacation Rentals in Newaygo Michigan, visit http://www.hesslakerentals.com. Brent has also started a free vacation rental listing service, http://www.ytbvacationrentals.com and also has a popular vacation blog at http://myytbtravel.blogspot.com
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