From
modern information technology came various messaging clients. From various messaging clients came direct marketing systems. Developments on direct marketing systems resulted in spam. Now, from spam comes spim. Spim are those unsolicited messages you recieve from anonymous senders on your mobile phone. Now direct marketing is getting scarier and scarier by the minute, don't you think? Maybe it's time to promote spim awareness, and thus let me suggest some tips on preventing and blocking spim.
Why is spim a threat to someone's security? Well, how do you think someone you don't know came across your mobile number, let alone the things you are interested in? Are they not getting closer and closer to you with spim than spam? These are the basic threats spim and spam have on both our privacy and security. Now we know what to be concerned of with spim and spam, let us now enumerate how they had the information they needed on us. Do you not continually browse the internet? Do you not register on some websites your e-mail and mobile phone number, let alone your mailing address? Do not these websites reflect a certain portion of your personality? If not, then how come you're browsing the damn site?!
With this, we now have a lot of answers on how to prevent and actually get rid of both spam and spim. But let us concentrate our efforts on avoiding spim. First thing would be to read the privacy policy each website has before registering for a certain service, etc. Next would be blocking known spimmer numbers, such as the ones you and your friends have received in the past. Then, take note of these numbers. Details such as the location and the mobile service provider each number represents would be very useful. Complain to your mobile service provider every chance that you have about the number. Finally, create a network group of all your contacts, and add one for unknown numbers. This group would eventually hold all the spim you would be receiving. Easy now, ain't it? Since there is no anti-spim application yet that is available from the market, it would do you good to follow these guidelines on
spim prevention.
