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Why would someone use one of these instead of good old fashioned SMS / iMessage / email spam?
by rafram 6mo ago
Why would someone use one of these instead of good old fashioned SMS / iMessage / email spam?
- yard2010 6mo agoRest assured the state behind this attack does it as well. Why not both?
- mcpherrinm 6mo agoThere's zero spam filtering interfering this way, and you can target your messages very precisely.
- tonyarkles 6mo agoAnd zero record of it ever happening as far as the carrier's concerned.
- sofixa 6mo agoIdk about zero, my Android device has SMS spam filtering, putting them in a separate inbox, hiding the notification, and with big red warnings if I indeed open them.
- pocksuppet 6mo agoCan't be blocked by the provider, doesn't require a subscription with a provider, can falsify the sender, can send to everyone in range instead of guessing numbers.
- numpad0 6mo agoThe conspiracy explanation would be that the primary purpose is IMEI/IMSI data collection and/or wireless bug planting, and scamming is secondary purpose and/or deep sampling operation. Though, this is just my hallucination.