"Daily economic News" for you to uncover the interest chain behind the spam message

Absrtact: Mobile phones have become a necessity for most people. At present, China's mobile phone users have exceeded 1.1 billion, on average, every 10 people have 8 mobile phones. At the same time, spam message also flooded, all kinds of advertising, fraud information seriously affect our lives. These rubbish is short

Mobile phones have become a necessity for most people. At present, China's mobile phone users have exceeded 1.1 billion, on average, every 10 people have 8 mobile phones. At the same time, spam message also flooded, all kinds of advertising, fraud information seriously affect our lives. Where does this junk text message come from? Who is to be supervised? Today is "World Telecom Day", "daily economic news" for you to uncover the interest chain behind the spam message.

Disturbing a large number of users of junk text messages, originated from telecom operators on the group SMS Business audit LAX, and even the interests involved in it?

Recently, a telecom operator insiders to the "Daily economic news" Reporter said that the bulk of spam message platform, mostly using the operator's business system in a group of SMS business channels to achieve the purpose of sending spam messages, "group SMS business is based on companies, units for the form of applicants to handle, The applicant can obtain a service number and connect to the industry gateway via the operator-supplied device to send text messages. The sender through the account, password for login authentication.

In this respect, with operators for many years of telecommunications deep Throat Personage Fang (alias) told reporters that the current domestic garbage short message industry, has formed a few agents to master the core resources of operators, a large number of distributors to expand the market of industrial Division of labor System. For the problem of spam message flooding, the three major operators are suspected of shielding failure, useless complaints, connivance of violations, interests cluster, rotating Republicans and other five major issues.

Doubt one:

Shielding failure

2012, the Ministry of Industry issued the "on the organization to carry out a group of port-type SMS mass business clean-up and rectification of the special Action notice" shows that there are some telecommunications enterprises to use their own short message channels, using their own ports and personal communications number of illegal operation of the business of spam message mass business, resulting in The operator is required to strengthen the ability of spam message discovery and filtration, and to deploy the spam message originator and end filter system nationwide, and build the spam message originator and end filter system nationwide.

Fang said shielding spam messages, technically is entirely feasible, effective, the first message to send through the operator's SMS gateway, SMS network shut down with the interception mechanism can filter the keyword, the problem is that many of the sender is not at all to intercept the keyword, spam message to unimpeded.

"Daily Economic news" reporter survey found that in the implementation, the operator of the mobile phone card sent SMS enabled the shielding mechanism, that is, if ordinary users send text messages with spam keyword, to a certain number (generally 5~10), the corresponding mobile phone card will be forced to shut down SMS function. "But this shielding mechanism does not have the operator's proprietary 106 (the initial number) of mass text messages. So the user received a lot of 106 text messages inside the actual spam message keywords, such as the new house, inquiries, opening and other types of words are openly casual. "Fang said.

Last year, the Ministry of Commerce has cracked down on the operator's commercial SMS port, and then the provinces have set up a shield sent to the garbage message firewall. Fang to reporters, "but this year, the provinces have been removed from the firewall, so that the spam message unimpeded, even if not removed, send text messages in the provinces of the operators also developed new technology, breached the firewall." This is also a large number of SMS agents claimed to be able to do the country without shielding the important reason. Send spam message, no operator's technical cooperation is impossible to achieve, so curb spam message, or need operators to manage themselves. ”

In unannounced investigations, the reporter also found that the mass message company did not send the content of advertisers to make any keyword restrictions, and can at any time to the three major operators of any number of obstacles to push spam messages.

Dialog】

Reporter to a brand of women in charge of identity, with a bulk SMS platform provider salesman business negotiations, the following for the negotiation of some of the dialogue:

"Daily Economic News" reporter (hereinafter referred to as NBD): your company directly with the operator contract or level two distributor?

Salesman: We are one-hand distributor, the operator of direct cooperation is Shanghai Mobile. More than half of the channels are distributed by Shanghai Mobile.

NBD: For mass spam messages, operators do not have a shielding mechanism?

Salesman: Please be assured that this situation is absolutely not going to happen. Because the corporate channel can be connected to the customer platform. Even at the peak of the billing period, our technical department will connect the appropriate billing platform for each customer.

NBD: Do I have to send a time limit if I buy tens of thousands of in one lump sum?

Salesman: No time limit, each customer in our company will have a corresponding accurate remarks, including account opening time, account opening amount, the cumulative amount of bills and the remaining amount. As long as the customer account number is greater than 1 yuan balance, can be used. Company platform has a software version and a web version of two. Web version of the query function is relatively complete, and more convenient, so most of our customers are using the Web platform.

NBD: If I buy a lot of quantity, how many can I send at one time?

Salesman: There is no limit. Submitted, the general one-time hair 50,000 ~7 million will be more stable. If more, can be submitted in batches, so it will not affect the speed of sending text messages.

NBD: Do I buy SMS volume, limited area, limit net and limit content and so on stipulation, or national and three nets, no content restriction to send unlimited?

Salesman: no restrictions. If you want to send on the national and three Internet, we can also provide the corresponding classification number. Content can be achieved without barriers to distribution.

Doubt two:

Complaint is useless

Prior to this, the Ministry and the three major operators for spam SMS issued a report and the corresponding treatment scheme, but in contrast to the mass of junk text messages, a large number of reports as Niniuruhai, the results are very little.

At present, users can login to the operator's online business hall, or call the operator service hotline, spam messages to report. In addition, mobile users can edit the "port number (that is, push the number of spam messages) +* (asterisk) + spam message content" to 10086999 report; China Unicom users can send the spam message sender number and spam message content together, sent to "10010".

106 SMS platform has been implemented since December 1, 2007, of which China Mobile Short message Class service code is 10657; the Chinese unicom Short Message Class service code is 10655; The telecom short Message class service code will be 10659.

This kind of service code began to use at the beginning, there have been expert analysis that, after the adoption of unified code, can facilitate mobile phone users to identify information sources, and immediately to the operator and the Ministry of Communications complaints, as long as the report value-added service provider code can be.

However, the daily economic news reporter survey found that the current user complaints of spam has encountered a "serious challenge."

Fang explained that China Mobile, for example, at present, China Mobile uses 106-port mass SMS, but the port number can be up to 19, which makes the user difficult to remember, difficult to enter, more difficult to report, "In addition, China Mobile can arbitrarily change the number of groups at the beginning of the post, from the logical arrangement of mathematical combinations, 19-bit length can be derived from countless mass ports, but also make spam message can be endless.

A spam message distributor's salesman told reporters that if a user sent its port to the source of spam more than two times, then the next time a message, the user will be operators pull into the SMS "blacklist", no longer receive spam messages, so that the user also no longer complain.

Fang also said that, for the benefit of consideration, operators received complaints from users, not the violation of the channel closed, but will report users to the blacklist, while the user sent to the provinces for blacklist sharing, thereby reducing reporting.

Dialog】

On the basis of business cooperation, the reporter with a brand of women in charge of the identity and the aforementioned SMS mass platform to provide business staff to carry out a dialogue, the following is a dialogue excerpt:

NBD: If a user to the operator to report my message, will not affect my follow-up SMS continue to send?

Salesman: No, every number will be recorded in the operator. If we provide a number of data in the complaint, and the amount of complaints more than 2 times, then the operator will be the corresponding number into the blacklist. So the next time you send a message, a specific number will no longer receive text messages.

Doubt three:

Condoning violations

In April this year, the Ministry of Industry has issued 4 notification requirements, the operator through active monitoring, timely detection of the port type of commercial short message delivery service in the irregular behavior, cut off the junk message interest chain, focus on cleaning up the basic telecommunications enterprises own and cooperation of the port type short message delivery business.

However, carrier port class spam messages are still being reproduced.

According to Tencent Mobile Security laboratory monitoring, as of the first quarter of 2013, Tencent mobile phone Butler received a user initiative to report the total amount of spam messages to 553 million, only the first quarter of 2013, the number of users reported spam messages reached 193 million. In the first quarter of the user initiative to report the spam message, the advertising class accounted for 81.09%, fraud class accounted for 11.46%, illegal class accounted for 4.24%, other categories accounted for 3.21%.

"The source of spam messages are both sent in 106th, but also the ordinary mobile phone number sent, the size of their respective numbers are very large." Recently monitored User initiative to report the data shows: 106th code segment of the spam messages accounted for about 45%. "Tencent mobile phone butler related officials to the daily economic news," said reporters.

Fang says the growing proliferation of "unsigned" spam messages is also an important evidence of the carrier's complicity. "The person who sells the bulk text message usually says that his channel can achieve 70 words without signature." In fact, the operator Group company clearly requested that all branches in the sending of bulk text messages, must be added to send the company's signature, to prevent the main advertising hair spam messages. However, "Daily economic news" reporter in the investigation of unannounced investigations found that in the bulk of the spam SMS business, "without signature" has become the unspoken rules.

Fang said, there is no operator coordination, anytime, anywhere, for the country, three network mass, unlimited content, without the signature of the mass spam message can not be achieved.

Dialog】

Reporter with a brand of women in charge of the identity of the above mentioned in the bulk of the SMS platform to provide business staff for a dialogue, the following is a dialogue excerpt:

NBD: Not with the signature, right?

Salesman: Well, yes.

Doubt four:

A profusion of interests

Chinese mobile and China Unicom have agreed on a firm commitment not to offer SMS services below each 5 cents to any business or individual, the Xinhua news agency said September 27, 2008.

Reporter received a "mobile short MMS Business Publicity Program" content shows that China Mobile text message Bulk business of the external sales price of 5 cents A. However, according to the reporter's unannounced visits, a spam message price can be as low as three or four cents.

Who secretly lowered the price of mass text messages, and who in which profit?

For the price contrast, "daily economic news" after the investigation, the reporter found that there may be two main reasons, one is the bulk of the message sent by the company did not send the text in accordance with the provisions of the contract, there is a "Shoho" problem.

Reporter investigation found that usually a wholesale agent to buy Bulk sms price of about 1 cents per article, and they are in the production of mass software, will be implanted in the software leak procedures, the deduction of about 5%, and then to high out of the price of 2~3 to sell to subordinate agents. The distributor gets the message to send the amount, for the competition of the industry, generally with 3~5 price quotation. When sending text messages, in order to earn profits, usually only by the customer order SMS volume of 40%-60% sent, some of the bulk of the company eventually sent a smaller amount. and customers because of the volume of the purchase of SMS, it is difficult to truly monitor the bulk of the company's final delivery volume, which also for the bulk SMS company's jerry-made space.

Another reason is the return point given by the operator.

Fang explained in detail, "There is a long chain of interest behind the junk text message, and the number of mass text messages in the country is nearly 200 billion a year." If there is no interest between the operator and the agent, so many shipments are unlikely to be sent out smoothly. Now the carrier group level request this kind of text message price must not be less than 5 cents, but the market many quote not normal Bulk SMS Agent company, but basically to 4 points, 3 cents in the price of selling. Agents do not do a loss of business, if there is no return of operators, this price is simply impossible to make. At the same time, as long as there is a return point, there must be corruption. ”

He also revealed that the industry's usual unspoken rule is that operators return to the agents, agents and then privately take out the big head back to thank the operators inside the key figures.

Dialog】

Reporter with a brand of women in charge of the identity of the above mentioned in the bulk of the SMS platform to provide business staff for a dialogue, the following is a dialogue excerpt:

NBD: How much is a mass message from your company?

Salesman: Are you sending a member notice SMS or advertising message?

NBD: Advertising message.

Salesman: Advertising message, our company has "106 (No.) 70 Words unsigned channel", Unit price 5 points, 30,000 above have preferential gift. "106 (No.) 65 Words with signature channel", Unit price 4 points, a large discount. "0971, 0739" and other types of telecommunications channels, Unit price 5 points, is also more than 30,000 preferential gifts.

NBD: If you buy a large quantity, what specific offers?

Salesman: Unit Price 5 points of the channel, 10,000 is 5 cents 1, 30,000 when 4.5 points 1, 50,000 when 4 1, 100,000 when 3 points 1, while giving SMS 10,000. Unit Price 4 points of the channel: 10,000 when 4 minutes 1, 30,000 when 3.5 minutes 1, 50,000 when 3 minutes 1, 100,000 when 2.5 minutes 1, and a separate message 10,000. If you buy more than 100,000, then give some text messages, can also be discussed.

Doubt five:

Take turns Republicans

"2009 CCTV exposure of China Mobile under the group of Shandong Branch mass spam message, China Mobile shut down a large number of groups originating mouth; After that, China Telecom's mass port springing up, which also led to 2012 years of China Telecom was exposed by CCTV; But, from the end of last year to now, China Mobile mass text message again ferocious, the three operators of spam message to the trader, as a turn Republicans game. "As an insider, Fang describes the behind-the-scenes quirk of this spam message industry.

According to the data of 12321 network bad and rubbish information report and reception center, in this year, April 7, the Ministry of the Bugle to blow another round of spam message clearance action after the April 14 ~4 month 20th, the center of the indirect received reports, through the port sent by the amount of junk text message increase, the chain Rose 61%, Once again embodies the garbage message body "kill the Cockroach" "strong letter" nature. Among them, the top three of the spam messages sent by Port are Guangdong (1890), Sichuan (1720 times) and Zhejiang (859 times). A total of 9,874 cases were transferred to the basic Telecommunications operations enterprise to investigate and handle user-reported port class data. Among them, China Mobile 2,811 Times, Unicom 338 times, Chinese telecom 6,725 times.

The operator's performance appraisal mechanism becomes another thrust of the spam message overflow.

At present, China's telecom operators use KPIs to assess. This type of assessment simplifies the evaluation of departmental or employee performance to a few key indicators. This way in the process of improving efficiency, but also led to a lot of telecom operators around the key indicators to allocate.

Fang told the Daily Economic news reporter, at present, the operator's traditional voice business income has been very bad, and the bulk SMS business can be a good way to make up for this decline in the gap, "each year, the group must set up income tasks, and then layers of decomposition, the group decomposition to provincial companies, provincial companies to be decomposed to the municipal level The problem finally exposed to the municipal level, in order to achieve revenue targets, the municipal level must be Chi Wanbai income, and junk SMS has become a big power source of income. In fact, operators are also afraid of spam messages by users complain, but the income pressure is too big, so they can only desperate. ”

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"Lawyers Bombard operators: both default and tort"

In response to the problem of spam messages, Sichuan code law firm lawyer Duyango wrote that in the case that the user does not order and apply for some kind of short message service, the SMS service provider provides the paid information services without authorization, which is equivalent to the commercial "strong buying and selling" behavior, which violates the consumers ' right to consume and advance the right to know and infringe their interests. "Spam messages are suspected of violating the right to rest, freedom of communication, privacy, personal information protection, consumer freedom and many other rights." Operators to send spam messages caused by the infringement, belong to the operator direct infringement. ”

But what is more embarrassing is that while spam messages have long been rampant in Chinese society, the follow up of laws and regulations is seriously lagging behind.

The daily economic news reporter noted that in 2000 our country enacted the telecommunications Regulations, but the regulations do not have a clear legal code for spam messages. In the "notice on standardizing the short message service" issued in 2004, the paper also only puts forward some normative opinions on the problem of the spam message, and lacks the actual legal effect.

Liu Junhai, director of the Institute of Commercial Law of Renmin University of China, believes that because of the loopholes in our legislation and the lack of legal basis for consumer rights, especially the difficulty of consumer proof and the small amount of the target, it is difficult to rationally manage the spam message problem through the legal level.

Liu Honghui, a lawyer at Beijing Jinghua law firm, pointed out that the current legal regulation of spam messages remains largely unregulated.

Reporter noted that, and China's spam message in the legal level of "laissez-faire free" status in stark contrast, some developed countries have already made a corresponding legal punishment mechanism. For example, laws in the United States have stipulated that the maximum penalty for sending spam messages is a fine of $6 million, and that serious people may even be sentenced to imprisonment. In South Korea, without the user agreed to send spam messages, the highest will be sentenced to about 180,000 yuan penalty.

"Undercover Spam sms" flea market: 200 billion a year for operators to generate revenue tens of billions of yuan "

"Tick Beep", midnight, has lain on the bed of Li Ming (alias) mobile phone message rang: Family has an emergency, the company has notified, or a friend of the news? When Li Ming difficult to get up to see, but found that this is a spam message, heart uncontrollable angrily. For mobile phone users, similar scenarios have become the norm, and junk text messaging has become a smack of street pollution.

May 17 is World Telecommunication Day, take this opportunity, in the operator system Person Fang (alias), with the help of "Daily economic news" reporter survey found that spam messages repeatedly banned, the reason is complex, and ultimately point to the junk message behind the interlocking chain of interest.

Tracking the proliferation of spam messages behind the profit chain, there is a link can not be overlooked: how the bulk of the message company is how to learn the user's mobile phone number information? In fact, personal information, such as looted's mobile phone number, has long been an open business. In the junk message interest chain, in addition to personal information looted link, another link is also attracting attention, that is, the demand for Spam SMS market, after all, in the market economy conditions, demand for the birth of supply.

April 7, the ministry launched a new round of mobile phone battle. The Ministry of the same day issued the "Ministry of Information" Electrical pipe letter [2013]160 No.] Notice that the ministry decided from April 2013 to December to carry out in-depth management of garbage messages special action. It is noteworthy that this is since the 2008 CCTV "3 15" party, the media's subsidiary of the distribution of wireless exposure as a key source of spam messages, the Ministry of public in 6 years launched the 6th time garbage message clean-up action.

"Daily economic news," the reporter found that the current domestic junk text message sent by the main source of "Port class", the use of this way to send spam information, not only a large number, but also fast.

The operators send spam messages to users nearly 50 billion a year, and nearly 200 billion per cent in each quarter, which will generate revenue for operators of tens of billions of yuan a year. ”

Spam message "Cockroach"

In the continuous chased interdiction, spam message not only did not stop, but evolved into a "letter strong", the more frustrated and Yong.

Sina Weibo netizens drunk farmers in the micro-blog complained about a representative: "Recently more and more junk text messages, back to another one, too dark, do not know if there is no way to cure them." Now received more than 10 per day, I was more than 10 years old customers. ”

Not only are the non-telecoms people complaining about it, but the people in the telecoms industry are also suffering. This year, the NPC deputies, China Mobile Zhejiang Company General manager Zhong Tianhua has been on the spam message crazy bombing, personal information leaked things feel upset. "I most of the time, a day to receive more than 10 spam messages, really very helpless." ”

A limerick is penetrating about the rampant phenomenon of spam messages: "vulgar, involved in the yellow, vulgar rascal, the stock market, fraud, the jackpot fooled, selling guns, fence, secretly selling the medicine of the soul, cursed, abusive, do not turn to call you afraid, selling house, opening, inexplicably thanked; The need for issuing, selling, and promoting reimbursement; scary, disinformation, difficult to reconcile with society, misleading, mass, SMS business development ...

"Daily economic news" reporter in the survey found that junk text messages belong to a group of text messages. At present, the bulk of the text message, mainly divided into three categories: first, the bank, operators such as the user sent to the reminder services, such as bank consumption information, credit card repayment reminders, service providers to send the recommendation, etc. the second category is the enterprise to the members of the business information, such as where the customer prudential products, when the electronic business enterprises to push promotional information to members; The third category is small advertising, fraudulent SMS and other spam messages.

According to a survey by the Beijing Zero Survey Company, 47% of respondents said they are currently facing spam messages, harassing phones and mobile phone app window ads. Junk text messaging has become a social nuisance problem that invades people's lives.

According to the Chinese Internet Association, 12321 Network of Bad and Spam Information Reporting Center survey, the second half of 2012, the average number of mobile phone users in China received 10.7 spam messages a week, accounting for all of the 22.5% SMS. Among them, 66.3% of the users received the lottery type of fraud messages, and received as a bank deduction class fraud message users reached 52.8%.

Year dumping 200 billion message

Lin direction, "Daily economic news" reporter said, since 2008 CCTV "3.15" Evening exposure, junk SMS has become smack rat, but the industry has not gone to extinction, but eventually to cultivate into a "dead cockroach", which in essence due to the consequences of the operators in cahoots.

Ministry of Statistics, the first quarter of this year, the national mobile text messaging business volume of 232.14 billion, an increase of 0.5%; among them, point to point SMS volume of 124.74 billion, the year-on-year decline of 10.9%, the monthly point to Point message volume reached 52.6, down 11.2%.

For this group of statistical data, ordinary users may be difficult to see the overall volume of text messages to increase and point to point message volume dropped between the two data industry mystery. And that's the direct evidence that spam messages are being sent frantically.

According to the Daily Economic news reporter survey to understand that enterprises or individuals to send spam message channels are mainly divided into port classes and point to point classes such as two kinds. The point-to-point class refers to sending spam messages directly via a specific mobile phone number, while the port class is a SMS service provider using the carrier port or the industry class application port as a mass spam message.

At present, the main source of domestic spam message is "Port class", using this way to send spam information, not only a large number, but also fast. The point to point class is complementary supporting role.

Port class spam message, its port number is generally sent to the "106" start, mobile phone users only need to read the recent spam messages, you will find that most of the current spam messages are the number of 106 beginning.

A user complained to reporters that 16th from 8:54 to 14:36 period less than 6 hours, the user received a total of 19 spam messages, of which 18 for the "106" Port class spam message, only 1 for a specific number of points to send spam messages.

According to the reporter survey, 106 SMS platform is based on China Mobile, Unicom and Chinese telecom, such as the three major operators to provide SMS port, this port can be connected through the Internet with a specified number of SMS bulk send and custom sent.

To read back to the group of statistics: the first quarter of this year, the national mobile text messaging business volume 232.14 billion, an increase of 0.5%. Among them, the point to Point message volume 124.74 billion, down 10.9% year-on-year. The data means that the number of point-to-point messages sent to and from ordinary users is falling markedly, down 10.9% in the first quarter, but at the same time, the total amount of text messages sent across the country in the first quarter has risen by 0.5%, and what secrets are hidden behind it?

Fang explained that, with the first quarter of the national total text message 232.1 billion minus point to point message volume 124.7 billion, will get 107.4 billion results, and this number is from the operator SMS platform port of mass information. "In these bulk text messages, conservatively said, spam messages accounted for 50%, which means that operators every quarter to send users spam SMS nearly 50 billion, a year will be nearly 200 billion, and this will give operators a year to bring tens of billions of yuan income." ”

SMS Business for Distributors

In the forest side of the introduction, "Daily economic news" reporter entered a number of professional spam SMS trading QQ group, lurking among them. This is not so much a group of QQ, but rather they are more like a flea market, the sound of Hawking, mixed with only the experts know the various industry code.

"Cross-net analog gateway, real number full, hundred percent send, random monitoring and testing, stable large number of orders, a regular electrical push, can be sent one-on-one, high speed of arrival rate, good effect, 10657CMPP direct access, can be issued nationwide, the state of the successful billing, 70 words without signature; Zhejiang Unicom cross-net official directly connected platform, Successful billing status, 70 words without signature. "In a spam message QQ group, a person shouted loudly shouted."

The man's yell just fell, another shouted: "Has been imitated, never been surpassed!" exclusive Mas three nets 106, "70 words, unsigned" "National Whole Network" four categories can be sent! Beijing, Sichuan no pressure! Welcome to the test slip. Welcome to consult this Q "Mr. Gu" Tel: * * *.

Others are not to be outdone: "Shanghai 021" "Telecommunications across the network" "Unicom Across the Network" interface, send content restrictions, can be checked status. call:*** Chen. ”

"Are you still worried about not having a holiday?" Are you still sad about sending? Are you still upset about the regional shielding? Are you still worried about the power of the channel? Then come and find me! "106" Channel 70 words, successful billing, 72H operator automatic return, can be issued "education" "real Estate" "Financial" "immigration" "All formal business Information" large volume can apply for direct connection, recruitment strength agent, Welcome to the big message companies, end customers come to test the list, "recruitment agent"

"Daily economic news" reporter joined a number of junk SMS Platform Agents trading QQ Group, every day from morning to night, these QQ groups are filled with a succession of Hawking sound.

Ordinary users may not know that these frequent hawkers are the most important part of the ecological chain of SPAM messages--SMS platform agents, mass SMS two-level distributors, three-level distributors, which have built a convenient bridge between operators and spammers, and have made a profit.

If the spam message is likened to a block of "small ads", "psoriasis", they are responsible for printing, posting ads, but its means more ingenious, only need a few wonderful bell can be tens of thousands of of spam message successfully pushed to everyone's eyes.

Reporter to business cooperation for the company, with a garbage message distributor salesman made communication. The salesman to the reporter sent a "Information application contract" content show that the other side for the Shanghai Search Culture Communication Co.

The contract stipulates that both parties sign the information application contract according to the law of information of the People's Republic of China, the contract law of the People's Republic of China and the general principles of civil law of the People's Republic of China. The other side provides the information application platform for the client side, the client side sends the information through the information application platform.

The salesman then provided a Web page SMS Platform test account, the reporter with the test account login http://www.guanggaoren.cn:7000, found that this is a simple Web commercial SMS delivery platform.

The page shows that it is a "mass message management system", and has two main input boxes, the top for the text message content input box, the content limit of 70 words, below the target mobile phone number input box, you can bulk import a large number of data. The reporter sent a few messages on it, all of which have been successful.

Search in the search box Baidu keyword "mass message", you can find the relevant results of 9.74 million. Reporters found that a large number of companies are carrying out this business, and has a formal corporate web site. Among them, ranked in the search results of the first "creative network", claiming to be "China's most powerful SMS platform system." The company said in the introduction, its short message platform with mobile Unicom Telecom port, can make information to reach the customer's mobile phone faster. "The use of SMS platform to send China Mobile, unicom, each SMS charges are less than 0.1 yuan." The more you buy, the more you offer, the less you can get a single message to 3.5 points. ”

Reporters asked the company's customer service staff to use their mass platform to send ads. Customer service replied that the price from 5 cents ~7 points, 500 yuan charge.

Subsequently, the reporter also contacted another through the search results called "Nine days letter King" mass Company, the company's customer service staff also said that can be issued ads, and will not audit the advertisers send content.

Reporter observation

"Spam Message delivery demand exuberant personal information looted rampant"

In the junk message interest chain, the demand market of the junk short message is also very interesting, after all, under the market economy condition, the demand produces the supply.

Tracking the proliferation of spam messages behind the profit chain, there is a link can not be overlooked: how the bulk of the message company is how to learn the user's mobile phone number information? In fact, personal information, such as looted's mobile phone number, has long been an open business.

Consumers ' personal information is collected by operators, banks, intermediaries, insurance companies, airlines and various retail businesses, but these information resources are not effectively regulated and are at times at risk of intentional or unintentional disclosure.

Spam Message delivery demand exuberant

It is noteworthy that the daily economic news reporter in the survey found that at present, the bulk of spam SMS companies in the external orders, according to the customer specific business corresponding to the specific customer base, free to provide customers with number library resources.

A mass message company salesman in communication with reporters on the clear point out that in-line company to customer service, for the number Library "no additional charges, this is within the scope of our services, after all, not every customer has so many numbers." ”

For the hands of the user number library to obtain the source, the salesman said that at the beginning of this century, when the garbage message industry started, the employees mainly through the two-tier market to acquire user personal information. However, with the growth of the industry, slowly began to exchange among practitioners, some number library has gradually become the industry's internal resources to share information.

In an unannounced interview, an employee explained that, from a big direction, the strong demand for spam messages was due to two reasons, one reason for the cheap price.

A Beijing area brand housing enterprise brand Head of the reporter in private communication to admit that he is in the housing enterprises in the introduction of new properties, in the distribution of advertising fees, will be appropriate to consider the spam message channel, the main reason is cheap. For example, a Beijing real estate is expected to open in the face of the customer base is mainly the city of Beijing's specific customer base, the basic quantity is not big. If through the spam message channel to a specific customer mass 100,000 text messages, the general cost of spending about 250,000 yuan can be. "It's not expensive, but it's easy to cover the target customer base. If this investment can bring a deal to customers, with Beijing's high real estate prices, it will be enough to recover the cost.

The above practitioners continue to explain that the other reason is that some illegal business, only through the channel of spam messages, such as the diploma, the sale of invoices.

Three ways of personal information leakage

"Daily Economic news" reporter survey found that the current user's personal information leakage mainly exists in the following three ways:

I. Internet registration INFORMATION

When an Internet user visits a website and registers, the site usually asks for a large amount of personal information, which is usually stored by the site when it is submitted. If the hacker invades the website database, can see backstage the data, thus the user's registration name and the password and so on to obtain the information. At the same time, also does not exclude the website malicious scalping user information possibility.

In addition, with the rise of e-commerce, businesses to obtain user personal information means also guise. At present, in Taobao and other E-commerce sites, users can often buy a number of "low-cost, value" of the merchandise, but the merchant may just play "1 yuan Package mail" "9.9 yuan Package mail" and other slogans for the guise of a large number of users to collect personal name, address, telephone and other information of the real, Then the user's personal information collected will be resold.

Second, the Enterprise information leakage

March 14, Beijing police reported that the recent continuous cracked two organized crimes against citizens of personal information criminal gangs, captured 92 suspects. In one of the cases, a number of insurance company staff have sold 20余万条 customer information, fraud gang after the use of more than 3 million yuan cheat.

April 18, Jiangxi Xinyu heard a case of illegal access to personal information, the accused Jane engaged in illegal debt collection, extramarital affairs and other "private detective" investigation work. In order to do a good job, Jane spent 1500 yuan on QQ to another QQ user to buy 11 cities in Jiangxi province 16,337,802 Mobile citizen personal information. The information includes mobile phone number, main name, machine ID number, home address, account opening time.

Operators said that within the operator and some cooperative companies, some positions can easily access to a large number of user personal information, do not rule out the possibility of employees to profit.

Iii. smartphone leaks

According to data released by the Dcci Internet Data Center, 66.9% of smartphone mobile apps are currently crawling users ' privacy data, while up to 34.5% of mobile apps have "privacy excesses".

It is understood that many mobile phone applications to the user will require the actual functions other than the permissions, access to such as user location, device serial number, address book, SMS Records and so on, and the default upload user privacy.

Some of the malware even in the background to steal the user's mobile phone address book information and forwarding to the designated server, so that unscrupulous businesses can collect a large number of users mobile phone number information.

The state issued legal restrictions

In the face of increasingly rampant personal information theft, trading, the state has issued relevant policies and regulations to be bound.

A few days ago, the Ministry of Public Information on the telecommunications and Internet users of personal data protection provisions (draft) to solicit opinions. According to the provisions of the regulations, telecommunications business operators, management agencies and staff may not sell or illegally to other people to provide telephone users the real identity information, otherwise can be more than 10,000 yuan or more than 30,000 yuan below the fine, constitute a crime, the legal responsibility.

The opinion draft stipulates, the user personal information, refers to the telecommunications business operators and Internet Information service providers in the process of providing services to be able to separate or with other information to identify users of information, including the user's name, date of birth, ID number, address and other identity information and users use the service number, account, time, The location and other log information, once adopted, this definition will have important practical value.