Over 50,000 Spam Text goes thru Globe every day

A recent press release posted on Globe’s website indicated that over 2 million spam messages were blocked/filtered by the telco after they’ve implemented an automated filtering system in their network.

The report mentioned an average of 50,000 SMS scam and spam messages were being filtered by the system with a high of 117,000 in one day.

Globe has about 2.1 million postpaid subscribers and the filter has covered about 70% of the number. The new filtering system was implemented only in August of this year.

Spammers and scammer mostly target Globe postpaid subscribers as they mostly belong to the A, B and upper C class and more prone to bite offers of real estate, insurance, car loans, and health benefits sent out by spammers.

Globe has been aggressively running after big-time spammers like Caritas Health and have asked the help of NTC for legal actions against them.

Both Globe and Smart are also actively promoting ways and asking subscribers to report on spammers and scammers {see here}.

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Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

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9 Comments

Concerned Citizen says:

10 years ago

If prepaid SIM cards are registered, problems like this would be easier to handle.
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gilbs72 says:

10 years ago

That’s still P50,000 worth of texts sent in just one day. Revenue for Globe. Any “effort” they will exert to stop this may be just for show. NTC and DTI must step in.

Among these spam, worst are the scams because they target Globe’s clients and impersonate the company. The frequently I receive these, seems it’s not a small time racket but BPO-type operations using computers.

Couldn’t Globe just implement a validation step for pasa load? “You are about to transfer P300 to 0917xxxxxxx. Text Y to 222 to confirm.” This should help people know that they’re being scammed. Also a centralized Globe number which all people will know is legit (similar to fastfoods’ hotlines).
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Glenn says:

10 years ago

its better to have another prepaid sim card. once you recieve a spam like this, subscribe to unlimited text and flood the spammer with text.
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