Comments on: [PTA]New Rules & Regulations for SMS Spam frenzy

By: rabbiya

rabbiya — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:27:12 +0000

sir this number hs given me threats to kill me

03004810504

By: yaser

yaser — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:34:48 +0000

@ choco: I guess you need to google few terms like legitimate, legal, Solicited etc. Whenever one signs up for a service and selects to receive messages it can’t be called spam anymore. Have you ever used isms? It could become one of the few legal sms based advertising platforms in future (when it grows big).

By: Adil Saleem

Adil Saleem — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:13:10 +0000

yes…i agree with both ch0c0 & moeen…but unfortunately, the people behind isms.pk are very clever…they always seem to find a way out…damn smart guys

By: Moeen

Moeen — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:58:24 +0000

i agree with ch0c0 we should start from it first.

By: ch0c0

ch0c0 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:40:34 +0000

I was thinking that why not start from home? I mean all those sites which help in spamming like ISMS.PK shud be blocked first of all

By: yaser

yaser — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:04:37 +0000

@ Junaid : Thanks for the info. I checked it out and it was quite a long document but took the pain of reading all of it. Besides the repeating contents and some useless stuff it has covered many aspects from Spam filter (equipment) installation to the legal/illegal definition. However I think cross carrier complaint mechanism should also be there i.e. if Spam goes undetected it can be reported. Other than that I guess it doesn’t have much details of the panelty as well(i might be forgetting that). Spam Filters do have a comprehensive algorithms to filter both MO and MT messages which in result could filter User originated spam (jokes to friends) as well which is not intended.

@Ayyaz: Thats a very valid concern, even though there are mechanisms to report fraud however the process sometimes is very idiotic. We have examples of past when customers were asked questions like, Sir did you transfer the balance? if you didn’t then we can’t do anything about it. which is in fact hilarious because a fraud is a fraud even if you didn’t become victim of it because a lot of other people have or might.

By: Ayyaz

Ayyaz — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:58:06 +0000

Adding more to your concern, what to do with the people who send sms telling that its Anniversary of company XYZ and u can have double balance by sending “[balance share code to their own #]“? Although most of us are habitual enough to ignore such messages yet its wrong. Should we log a complaint against it too ?

By: Aaqil Mahmood

Aaqil Mahmood — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:02:27 +0000

hey liar wrong stories fabricate stories.

By: Junaid

Junaid — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:31:42 +0000

PTA has just made available a consultation paper on Spamming on their website. Its very crude and the suggestions quite non feasible, but its a start

By: Matt Hanson

Matt Hanson — Sat, 31 May 2008 12:40:04 +0000

Good writing. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed my Google News Reader..

Matt Hanson