CORPORATE SPAMMING (Part 2)

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 7:38:04 by

Promotional messages that you get from cellular companies is not the only spamming you are a victim of on daily basis. There are two other forms:

SMS Marketing

Telecom companies are not the only ones exploiting people’s dependency on cell phones as small businesses have jumped in to show their presence in people’s inboxes too. Whenever a Tom, Dick and Harry open up a new real estate outlet, primary school, mutton
shop, eat out, garments store or website they know only one way of promoting their business – SMS marketing.

While they should be ashamed of what they are doing, one such message proudly boasts of having mobile numbers of all Pakistanis! Obviously our efficient friend that came up with such a claim neither has their database synchronised with those of all telecom
companies neither are they connected to ISI by any means. So who then has been selling them profiles of businessmen and investors?

Generally spammers create profiles based on demographics and target only the relevant audience. Spammers in Pakistan have gone one step ahead – they target everyone! Last year I changed my mobile network and got a brand new number activated. Hardly 15 minutes
passed and I got the first spam message. So obviously they send messages to all possible mobile numbers without knowing whether they are active or not. And since then I have received thousands of messages from needle makers to car 

These are small business and can’t afford to advertise on national media and hence they will stop at nothing to spam us. Again, the blame lies in part with telecom companies that provide with such solutions and openly advertise at the websites. Apparently
their motto seems to be spam and help other spam!!

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