[71903] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SprintPCS spam policies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jun 24 23:03:08 2004
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:02:02 +0800
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40DB4B4B.2030508@fnordsystems.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Eric Kuhnke writes on 6/25/2004 5:44 AM:
> As a non-sprint-related side note, I know of somebody whose AT&T
> Wireless phone service was rendered completely unusable by incoming spam
> via the email-to-SMS gateway. The typical rate was one message every 30
> minutes, the only solution offered by customer service was to change the
> phone number. Has anyone ever encountered spammers doing a dictionary
> attack (emailing all 9999 phone numbers in a NXX) via email-to-SMS
> gateways?
I used to run an email to sms gateway at a previous job (where we
consulted for one of india's largest mobile phone providers)
I was seeing multiple instances of this even 4..5 years ago.
srs
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