Unsolicited SMS Advertising

For some days, SMS seems to be in some kind of renaissance. Frequently, I receive unsolicited SMS advertising. Not necessary to add, this is quite annoying.

While I am personally not necessarily happy with all the regulation and rules we have in Germany, I really do like the telecommunication regulations. In the early years of the internet, I successfully dealt with dialers and other malware using the possibility, the Federal Network Agency offers.

Here you see one of the SPAM SMS I receive. No sender number, links which you don’t know where they lead to. And most important, no consent to send me such SMS.

Unwanted SMS
Unsolicited SMS

Luckily, the Federal Network Agency provides a form where you can fill a complaint against such unsolicited SMS or calls.

Eventually, if you get such SMS or calls, you might want to fill out the complaint form, helping to prevent this in the future.

Update: 2019-07-27

Today, I received feedback regarding my complaints from the Federal Network Agency. Unfortunately, nothing can be done as the sender is based in Malta and they do not provide any callback number.

Aus Ihrer Sachverhaltsschilderung ist kein von der Bundesnetzagentur zu verfolgender Verstoß zum Rufnummernmissbrauch oder zu unerlaubter Telefonwerbung erkennbar. Unter den konkreten Umständen besteht daher für die Bundesnetzagentur keine Möglichkeit einzuschreiten. Der Firmensitz des Anbieters befindet sich im Ausland (Malta) und es wird keine Rufnummer  beworben.

This is in fact very unfortunate, as it is obviously SPAM (similar SMS with different sender names), they want to make you to click on the links provided.

Link: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/Telekommunikation/Verbraucher/RumitelBeschwerde/beschwerde-node.html

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