Comments on: Mobile Spam & Permission Marketing

By: I’m lovin the new rule: No more than 200 SMS | Lucid Confusions

I’m lovin the new rule: No more than 200 SMS | Lucid Confusions — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:43:41 +0000

[...] carrying in from 2011, this year, are the barrage of text messages on my cellphone. Back in 2009, I wrote about mobile SMS spam. Back then, I used to accumulate 51 short messages in 3 days. Early in 2011, I was accumulating 51 [...]

By: ashish

ashish — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:53:39 +0000

Thanks Easo for dropping by. You can be sure that lists are traded. They even have a term for it – “number harvesting”.

Have a nice day!

By: For effective SMS marketing

For effective SMS marketing — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:26:02 +0000

[...] Today the cell phone user is inundated with marketing SMS and it is increasingly difficult to catch user attention. Check out my friend’s frustration on the number of mobile spam he receives: “51 unread SMS in just 3 days!” [...]

By: easo

easo — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:01:33 +0000

Permission marketing for these guys seems to be defined like this – “Sir, you have a cellphone? That’s good enough. You just gave us permission!”

Not just that. When you visit places like Ascendas, Chennai, you are asked to leave your cellphone numbers at the security desk and where do you think all those details will end up in?? I hear that people even make money out of trading that.

Easo