How can we avoid spam messages that cannot be prevented?

Text/Ding Aoxi (This article is exclusive to Baijiahao)

Speaking of spam messages, I believe everyone is familiar with it. Whether it is fraudulent information sent by pseudo base stations, advertising information sent by major e-commerce platforms of Tmall Taobao, or promotional information sent by various real estate agents with mobile phone numbers, it is difficult for everyone's mobile phones to avoid the harassment of spam messages. On some special days (such as double 1 1, double 12, etc.). ), all kinds of spam messages are even more annoying. We can't help but ask, why can't damn spam messages be avoided?

Nominally unsubscribe.

Many people get bored when they receive spam messages inexplicably. At this time, everyone hopes that there is a way to refuse these spam messages. Let's take a look at several common "unsubscribe" methods:

1 reply "t"

As we all know, many spam messages will have a sentence behind them: "unsubscribe from T". However, can I really unsubscribe from this letter? The answer is probably heartbreaking. First of all, spam messages are sent to a person because his number happens to be in the sender's number pool (such as 139, 138). Before sending spam messages, the sender doesn't know whether all these numbers are used, and the sending method is just aimless mass sending. At this point, if the sender receives a short message from the user, the sender naturally knows that this number is being used. This information will not only be quickly synchronized to all senders of spam messages, but also make consumers who reply to SMS messages suffer more accurate spam messages. Although we can't deny it, there will still be some conscientious SMS senders who will stop sending spam messages after receiving the unsubscribe message "T" from others. But for more dishonest spammers, it is counterproductive for ordinary people to reply to any information.

2 reply "0000"

In addition to replying to "T", there is also a message circulating on the Internet: replying to "0000" can unsubscribe from all spam messages. But is this really feasible? In fact, replying to "0000" requires special caution. First of all, not every operator supports this unsubscribe method. If the operator does not support it, it is useless to send it. Secondly, even if the operator supports it, the consumer must send it to the official number of the corresponding operator (such as 10086, 10000, etc.). ). If you accidentally send it to the sender's number, you may order unnecessary services, resulting in the loss of telephone charges. Finally, "0000" can only unsubscribe and block short messages directly related to the operator. If it is spam messages sent by other operators, sending "0000" cannot be blocked.

3 Taobao background closed

In addition to the above two methods, there is another method with the most extensive process, which is to turn off SMS push in Taobao background. We know that after purchasing goods on e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Tmall, the store knows our mobile phone number. Using Taobao's own SMS push mode, stores can send all kinds of promotional messages to buyers. At this time, you can log in to Taobao background and choose No on whether to receive the seller's promotional short messages, so that all kinds of promotional information sent through Taobao short message platform will be blocked to some extent.

However, many Tmall and Taobao sellers will use other third-party platforms to send various promotional information. Although we can turn off the SMS push function in the background of Taobao, the spam messages sent by sellers through various third-party platforms are still hard to prevent.

How to treat it?

According to the previous analysis, it is not difficult to find that all kinds of unsubscribe methods at this stage are actually difficult to stop the indiscriminate bombing of spam messages. So for ordinary people, is it only passively accepting this road?

In fact, there are still many ways to solve this problem. As early as 20 15, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the "Regulations on the Management of Communication Short Message Service", clearly requiring short message service providers and short message content providers not to send commercial short messages to users without the consent or request of users. For commercial short messages, the "Regulations" specifically propose that commercial short messages should not be sent to users without their consent or request. Users who explicitly refuse to receive commercial short messages after consent shall stop sending them. When short message service providers and short message content providers send commercial short messages to users, they should provide convenient and effective ways to refuse to receive them and inform users with the short messages, and must not set obstacles for users to refuse to receive short messages in any form. These Provisions have been formally implemented since June 30, 2005+2065438. In addition to the promulgation of laws and regulations, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has also set up a special spam complaint platform. Once consumers receive spam messages, they can complain through/website. Once the complaint is verified, the corresponding spammer will also be punished.

In addition to the complaint platform of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, we can also use all kinds of third-party security software. These security software can accurately judge whether some numbers and short messages are spam messages through big data analysis. Once the mobile phone receives spam messages, it can also be automatically blocked to reduce the impact of spam messages on people. Of course, after all, all kinds of third-party security software are palliative. Only by strengthening management and punishment in law and increasing the illegal cost of criminals can we deter the senders of spam messages in a sense and completely solve the harassment problem of spam messages. Controlling spam messages requires more efforts from the regulatory authorities.