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How to deal with the bombardment of spam messages?

in daily life, many citizens often receive the advertising and sales messages from merchants, with the prompt of "unsubscribe back t" or "unsubscribe back TD" at the end of the messages. Do replies to t or TD really work? Do you get bombarded with such messages frequently? Is it very annoying? So is it really useful to reply to the English letter T with a Latin text message? Come and have a look.

recently, a Chengdu citizen said that after responding to multiple T's in a row, spam messages were sent more frequently instead of being 'unsubscribed'.

In response, a reporter secretly visited the SMS delivery platform in the name of the merchant, and got the reply that "unsubscribe" is just a form, "even if the user replies hundreds of times & lsquo; T & rsquo;, it doesn't work. '

'unsubscribe back to t' is only a form and has no practical effect

The reporter contacted a service provider in Beijing in the name of the enterprise and said that he wanted to cooperate in mass sending of marketing messages. The opposite party's staff said that according to relevant laws and regulations, marketing SMS must include the words "unsubscribe back t" and other similar words in the content, which cannot be changed.

Can users unsubscribe by themselves? In response to the reporter's question, the staff said: 'in fact, every time you see a unsubscribe & lsquo; T & rsquo;, it's just a form. Even if you return & lsquo; T & rsquo; hundreds of times, you cannot unsubscribe. "He also said that as for the SMS of domestic communication operators, if the user replies to the letter unsubscribe and the customer calls again for confirmation, the unsubscribe can indeed be realized. In general, if citizens reply to "t" unsubscribe for many times, the SMS function of their mobile phones will be affected. In the end, they may not receive push any more. In the final analysis, "this is just a complaint about the SMS channel, but it will not unsubscribe. Send it to the user in the background, and the user can still receive it.

Expert: no reply or blacklist recommended

Why do you operate as required or can't you unsubscribe? In this regard, Qu Zilong, founder of network sharp knife, a non-governmental information security organization, said that the promotional SMS sent in such a long form involves three parties: the merchant, the SMS agent platform and the SMS receiver (i.e. the user). The merchant entrusts the SMS platform to send the SMS with marketing content to the user. The specific way of unsubscribing is determined by the SMS platform. Generally, there are two situations, one is a technical problem, and the platform does not respond in time after receiving the unsubscribe signal; the other is that the platform does not write the corresponding unsubscribe procedure, and the unsubscribe method provided in the SMS is just a look, which cannot play a practical role.

Providing a way to unsubscribe is not a platform for sending SMS. In fact, this involves the supervision of SMS by relevant national departments. As early as 2015, the regulations on the management of communication short message service issued by China explicitly required: 'short message service providers and short message content providers shall not send commercial short messages & hellip; & hellip;' without the consent or request of users. 'therefore, many companies send marketing short messages, which will be added with unsubscribe mode.

How should users deal with such spam messages? Quzilong's advice is: do not reply, or add the number of the other party to the mobile phone blacklist. At the same time, quzilong also does not recommend users to contact the communication operators for SMS interception. "At present, it is impossible to intercept for a specific number, which may cause injuries. What should not have been received has not been received, nor has what should have been received. '

One operator insider who did not want to be named said that there are three channels for commercial SMS delivery: one is that the business directly cooperates with the operator, outsourcing SMS service, and returning 'TD' or '0000' can unsubscribe; the other is that the SMS agent cooperates with the operator to help customers send SMS in groups; the third is through 'pseudo base station'. According to the insider, there are two ways to deal with the latter two channels of advertising SMS, one is to log in to 12321 platform for complaints, the other is to download mobile phone shielding software.