Remedial Measures for Spam SMS

Intensify the investigation and crackdown on illegal provision of information services and infringement of users' legitimate rights and interests. , centralized management of illegal short messages related to fraud, harassment and pornography. Mechanisms for reporting, researching, investigating, and safeguarding illegal short messages have been established. 110 of the public security agency and the China Internet Illegal and Bad Information Reporting Center can accept user reports. After verification and determination by the public security department, according to the investigation and handling opinions put forward by the public security department, Telecom operators cooperated to stop SMS services for relevant users.

Through the Sunshine Green Network Project series of activities, we actively guide basic telecommunications operators and value-added service companies to establish the China Green Mobile Phone Culture Construction Alliance, and carry out green mobile phone cultural creation evaluations, green mobile phone cultural creation seminars, and Chinese green mobile phone culture Develop forums and other activities, vigorously advocate a healthy and civilized mobile phone culture, and encourage the creation of more and better information content to enrich the people's online cultural life.

Based on the measures already taken, the Ministry will strengthen policy supervision, promote technological governance, advocate green culture, and further control spam text messages. Encourage mobile communication operators to adopt new measures and new services to curb spam text messages. China Unicom has launched the "SMS Treasure" value-added service to its mobile phone users in Sichuan, Shanghai and other places, giving users the power to set up their own "blacklists" or "whitelists", which has suppressed the sending of spam messages to a certain extent and will Promote nationwide.

In addition, the contribution of domestic and foreign mobile phone security manufacturers in the prevention and control of spam text messages cannot be underestimated. Domestic mobile phone software such as 360 Mobile Guard that can prevent spam text messages has protected hundreds of millions of users from the harassment of spam text messages. At the same time, some industry experts believe that government departments represented by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, security manufacturers represented by 360, mobile phone users, and the media have all taken action. If coupled with the active self-examination of operators in various places, the "garbage" created by the five parties' joint efforts will The trend of "SMS Governance" has initially taken shape, and spam SMS management is expected to enter a new stage.

Measures to control spam text messages

1. Strengthen legislation. On April 8, 2011, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate's "Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Fraud" was officially implemented. According to the explanation, telecommunications fraud will be severely punished. It is said that the minimum threshold for criminal offenses has been increased from 2,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan. At the same time, the starting range of "relatively large amount" and "huge amount" for fraud crimes has been widened, stipulating that fraud of 3,000 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan is considered a relatively large amount, and fraud of 30,000 yuan to more than 100,000 yuan is considered a huge amount. In addition, the standard for identifying "extremely large amounts" of fraud will be adjusted to 500,000 yuan. Regulations related to the telecommunications industry are interpreted as follows: Those who send more than 5,000 fraudulent messages and make more than 500 fraudulent calls, even if the amount of fraud is difficult to verify, should be convicted and punished for fraud. However, the “threshold” of 5,000 items is far higher than public expectations, and relevant legislation needs to be strengthened.

2. Strengthen supervision. Telecommunications and network companies must strengthen management, clarify responsibilities, formulate practical preventive measures, coordinate with each other, and provide joint supervision. It is necessary to increase investment in technology, fully filter text messages, delete text messages involving pornography and personal attacks immediately, and hold the parties accountable for egregious cases.

3. Strengthen the education of citizens’ moral quality. Guide citizens to consciously learn information security knowledge, cultivate the public's immunity to bad text messages, and avoid being deceived for the sake of small profits. Citizens should strive to improve their ideological quality, keep themselves clean, refrain from creating or spreading bad text messages, and effectively eliminate the space for bad text messages to survive and spread.