Dejections

Have you been sent a spam text message recently? Well apparently the amount of spam that is sent via text is on the rise.

Cloudmark polled 1000 consumers recently and though research revealed that over 66% of those people had received a spam message via a mobile phone within the last two weeks. Indeed half of those who had received messages believed that they are either malicious or possibly even fraudulent.

The research also questioned people on their propensity to use their mobile phones and old mobile phones for services such as mobile banking, however 70% of the respondents to this particular research said that they would definitely not trust using their phone for such important services.

Cloudmark is well-known in the e-mail business, they provide system has which stop up to 90% of spam e-mail coming through two in boxes. It hopes to take that technology and learning over to the mobile phone industry in the form of three different products.

The chief executive of the company commented that they had initially spotted the growth of spam text messages a few years ago in Asia. Those readers interested in the mobile markets will be aware that the Asian mobile networks are a few years ahead of Europe. Another thing worthy of note is that following the popularity of mobile phones in nature a lot of people started to not even have fixed telephone lines, instead they relied completely on their mobile phones. The sad fact is that in China which has seen a huge growth in the market from mobile phones, up to 40% of the text messages per cent are in fact spam.

Now if you look to the European mobile phone networks the lover of spam is a lot less, however the networks want to proactively ensure that this does not get out of hand and say they’re looking for solutions already.

The product that they have launched basically inspects the content of the text message and filters it as to spam e-mail messages are filtered currently. In addition they have another system which identifies spammers and allows mobile operators to block them from both within their own and partner networks.