| A Question About VOIP Spam |
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 Patrick Townson (ptownson@massis.csail.mit.edu)Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:00:00 EST
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I do not know if this makes and sense or not, but perhaps someone can respond. Since VOIP connections go through the internet to a 'mailbox' sort of like email, what would happen if a spammer sent several thousand pieces of spam to the servers at Vonage for example? Not the voicemail boxes (although that should be possible also) but I mean, to the 'channels' conversations are handled on. Wouldn't all those subscribers get bothered by the spam? Reason I ask is, I loaned my old prepaid AT&T cell phone to Lisa's husband, (normally I just leave it turned off when not in use which is most of the time), and as soon as he turned it on, it immediatly buzzed to indicate text messages and voice mail were waiting. The five or six text messages were all spam, and the voicemail messages were the same thing. Now on my own personal cell phone, every day lately I have been getting 'test messages' which are nonsensical things; just subject lines saying 'test' from silly numbers which do not exist. I haven't yet gotten any of this on my Vonage VOIP phone, but that is possible also, I would think. Can't any device which works through the internet get spammed?
PAT |
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