Well there is another news related to spam SMS. This time is the U.S government is taking a legal action on shutting down a massive text-messaging spam operation.
Beginning in August 2009, Flora’s Huntington Beach, Calif.based operation sent at least 5 million messages; at one point, he was sending 85 texts per minute, the FTC said.
The FTC’s legal complaint alleges that Flora’s texts included links to websites with “.gov” (the official U.S. government domain name); the sites were “not operated by or affiliated with any governmental entity,” the FTC said.
If recipients responded to Flora’s unsolicited messages, he then sold their mobile phone number to third-party marketers. In addition, many consumers had to pay overage fees for the spam texts, the FTC said.
The FTC is asking the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to freeze Flora’s assets and order a permanent injunction against him from sending such messages under the FTC Act and the CAN-SPAM Act, both of which control the unwanted distribution of unsolicited electronic messages and regulate deceptive business practices.
As reported previously, U.S government should take into consideration in adopting the SMS Spam Reporting System.
