SMS-spam came to an end?

October 21, 2014, an amendment to the Law On Communications , SMS-related promotional mailings. Do you remember a time when many newspapers were full of headlines in the style of «SMS-spam becomes illegal," "Russians get rid of mobile advertising," "End of SMS-spam"? Similar articles written including and quite large and serious edition.

For some reason, then all journalists (and deputies too) together "forgot" that SMS-spam (ie - without sending advertising consent of the recipient) has long since been banned, for each such message in accordance with the Federal Law on Advertising relies penalty of 100 to 500 thousand rubles.

But still there was less spam?

In our service by sending an automated complaints about SMS-spam we are statistics from January 20, 2014. Presented at the top of the article graph shows the number of complaints sent to the FAS by our users (those who did not abandon us to send anonymous statistics) weekly. Yes, the trend is down - the number of complaints on SMS-spam decreases, respectively, and decreases the amount of spam. But what is the merit of the changes to the Federal Law On Communications, entered into force on 21 October 2014? In our opinion - no. Federal Law On Communications introduces the responsibility of operators for receiving SMS-spam subscribers who "said" operators that receive SMS from certain numbers they do not want. Many of these users? Unlikely. Whether suffering from this sender of spam? No. What is the responsibility of the operator, if the advertising SMS-message yet been received by the subscriber? Unclear. Maybe some senders SMS-spam and scared, but judging by the statistics provided by us (see. The period October-December 2014) - such a little. A significant reduction in SMS-spam observed only in the first week of the New Year, but there is a reason - very few people worked in those days, senders of spam too relaxed.

However, we can certainly say that due to the large number of complaints to the FAS for SMS-spam, the amount of spam gradually decreasing. Let FAS and rare plants make for spam senders (see. Details below), but apparently they are often requests for information they send - respectively, senders know that they can expect.

Another interesting statistic
We have analyzed the content of about 28'000 advertising SMS-messages (about 14'000 senders) received by users who have agreed to anonymously share such information with us.

It turned out that the most popular word in the SMS-spam - Discount:

word th>	Number of references th>
off	3707
call	2874
day	2064
taxi	2046
loan	2001
Car	1998
money	1951
only td >	1910
all	1884
price	1647
gift	1638
SMS	1544 td >
new	1439
your	1368 tr >
free	1356
any	1332
action	1228
year	1207
get	1005
Map	980
detail	952
loan	919
Order	900
all	897
free	888
code	842
number	837
ooo	836
MTS	775
773  The most popular brand, referred to in text messages - MTS: Brand th> Number of references th> MTS 775 Rolf 560 beeline 360 Mercedes 285 Mitsubishi 280 vk 232 Sberbank 190 qiwi td > 186 Ford 177  The sender, who often complain - promo: sender th> promo wurussia conf hobocti 900 mts -partner time + money 79029551350 79029550877 ( nano-finance) mtc  Unfortunately, the FAS and its territorial units (FAS) rarely do find spam senders: Moscow FAS: number of complaints in 2013 - 1000 in 2014 - more than 2000, but penalties only 2 million. rub. St. Petersburg FAS: fines also only 2 mln. rubles. (25 offenders), the 2/3 hits per FAS - for SMS-spam . FAS Tatarstan: the number of complaints on SMS-spam has increased by 25 times ( 890 complaints in the first 9 months of 2014 ), 500 cases filed, but only 58 are recognized violation. Novgorod FAS: 350 complaints in 2014, only 13 prosecutions. Maybe, FAS_RF and [there must be a nickname Roskomnadzora Habré / GeekTimes] can something interesting to tell us? I began to receive SMS-spam Less More The same td > do not receive spam Other Voted 204 people. 53 people abstained. Only registered users can vote in polls. Sign , please. Source: geektimes.ru/post/244059/