Statistics relatively legitimate withdrawal of money by sms is already alarming, but in the very near future the problem of "blossom and zakolositsya. There are several reasons, but the key: the ease of technical implementation of such "projects", with minimum financial investment, the willingness of users to part with money, non-obviousness sms-traps and the lack of necessary controls. It all together a really provokes unfair "business", why not raise the money that is literally lying under their feet?
In most cases, the problem reduces to the defrauding of the user's SMS-messages to pay number, issue price "may be up to 130 rubles per SMS. Up to half (usually 30-40%) in cash reserves itself the operator, content provider gets the rest and share their income with sub-provider (partner). Solid content providers do not cheat and honestly warn of cost of goods or services, but to keep track of its many partners and "partners" do not have time. And the number of partners will only grow because "We have offered a large content providers to become aggregator. We create an internal rating and the more revenue provider, the more he gets attention from us. With big companies it is easier to work and we invite them to take their wing of those whom we now disable "(Pavel Roitberg, director of product development and services MTS).
On the recent "updates" in the area warns Kaspersky Lab, in this case, the phenomenon is widespread due to spam technology delivery. Referring to come into force on 1 July an updated law "On Advertising" spammer claims to be a white, fluffy and law-abiding. Want to remove your email address from spam databases? Easy: send SMS-message to a special number and in return you get a link to a web-site where supposedly you can remove your address from mailing lists. Of course, such a site do not exist, and SMS is charged at special rates. Really new spam technologies: their income gets a spammer is not from the customer list, but from the beneficiaries themselves, "chain letters. A quote from the newsletter at Kaspersky Lab:
"In RuNet a new kind of fraudulent emails that spammers under one pretext or another trigger recipients supposedly free to send an SMS a particular type (containing a specified code word and / or number) on the number of paid service. Prepositions come in many shapes, but the goal of a spammer - completion of their personal accounts at the expense of users. <...> The spammer claims that SMS-message is completely free, all conservation laws, "and he supposedly wants" to be law-abiding citizen. "<...> The only thing in this report is true - it provision of the law "On Advertising", which is really an amendment to take effect July 1. But everything else - deceit. Trusting users will not be unsubscribed from the spam.But they will lose some amount on their mobile accounts, and resourceful spammer, who played on the reluctance of users to receive spam-mail can be a good idea to "earn".
Different types of SMS-fraud occur and will occur, the temptation is great. In all such cases, it is important to not be too lazy to tell your agent. That is sure to give the claim content providers, and already he tackles dishonorable "partner." How not to get caught on a hook and do not pay $ 3 instead of the declared 8 cents - it's hard to say, there is no universal recipe. The perfidy of these trapping wells in the instantaneous and invisible withdrawals from the account, and details later this month bought a few.It remains to recommend to carefully monitor the balance and use common sense when using such services. Today, most unpleasant surprises can occur due to the relatively low prevalence of SMS-payments, but the situation is slowly changing. Large content providers cherished reputation and a direct connection to the operators, they are interested in the operational block of abuse.