Telecoms Spam

• Phone Spam
• Fax Spam
• SMS Spam

Phone Spam

• Do Not Call/Phone Preference Registries
• Phone Filters
• Telemarketing Information
• Who Called Me?
• Winding up Telemarketers

Do Not Call/Phone Preference Registries

US National Do Not Call Registry - https://www.donotcall.gov/
Telephone Preference Service UK - www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Do Not Contact Service CA - cornerstonewebmedia.com/cma/submit.asp
DMA's Telephone Preference Service - https://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offtelephone
Stop Political Calls - www.stoppoliticalcalls.org/index.php

Phone Filters

Devices can be used to screen calls before they are answered - a more sophisticated version of screening calls using an answerphone.

TrueCall - www.truecall.co.uk/

Telemarketing Information

TCPALaw - www.tcpalaw.com/ - US
US FCC: Unwanted Telephone Marketing Calls - www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/tcpa.html
US FTC on Telemarketing - www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-tmark.htm
DoNotCall.com - donotcall.com/
do-not-call.com - www.do-not-call.com/
AntiTelemarketer - www.antitelemarketer.com/
Californians Against Telephone Solicitation - www.stopjunkcalls.com/
Telemarketing - www.cexx.org/telejunk.htm
DianaMey - www.dianamey.com/
Repel the Invaders - www.dopplerfx.com/repel/
The Telemarketing Car - cockeyed.com/citizen/telemarketing/telemarketing_car.shtml
Autodialers - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodialer
Ban Karo! - www.bankaro.com/
Silent calls - www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/landline/silent/
Barclaycard fined for silent calls - www.ofcom.org.uk/media/features/Barcfine

Who Called Me?

Who Called Us? - whocalled.us/
Who Calls Me? - whocallsme.com/
800 notes - 800notes.com/
Caller complaints - www.callercomplaints.com/
Phone spam filter - www.phonespamfilter.com/
WTF calls? - wtfcalls.com/
Number Zoom - www.numberzoom.com/en/?title=Main_Page
Call Ferret - www.callferret.com/
Trace Number - www.tracenumber.com/
Why R U Calling? - whyrucalling.com/
Say No To 0870 - www.saynoto0870.com/

Related

• Reverse Lookup

Winding up Telemarketers

Spend Some Quality Time With Your Telemarketer - www.brouhaha.com/~eric/telemarketing.html
Tom Mabe: Revenge on the Telemarketers - www.tommabe.com/
Tormenting Telemarketers - www.milk.com/random-humor/torment_telemarketers.html
EGBG anti-telemarketing counterscript - www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html
Call Them! They bug you, now YOU can bug THEM! - www.freewebs.com/callthem/
Dealing with Telemarketing Slime - www.scn.org/~bk269/telemarketing.html
Asterisk Telemarketer Torture - www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Telemarketer+Torture

Related

• Winding up Spammers
• Scam baiting
• Guerilla Anti-spam Tactics
  

Fax Spam

Junkfaxes.org - www.junkfaxes.org/
JUNKBUSTERS Junk Fax Headlines - www.junkbusters.com/fax.html
JUNK FAXES Stealing Time, Resources and Privacy - www.consumerwatchdog.org/corporateering/articles/?storyId=12547
Junkfax.org - www.junkfax.org/
Broadcast Fax and Junk Email Illegal - www.markwelch.com/faxlaw.htm
UK Fax Preference Service - www.fpsonline.org.uk/fps/ - UK, for Companies
Fax Recovery Systems - www.faxrecoverysystems.com/
Junk Faxes - www.knujon.com/junkfax.html
Under-caution spam faxer fined over £6,000 - www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/21/fax_nuisance_thumped/

SMS Spam

• General SMS Spam
• US SMS Spam
• UK SMS Spam
• Italian SMS Spam
• Dutch SMS Spam
• Chinese SMS Spam

General SMS Spam

Spam in the Hand is Not Politically Correct - www.10meters.com/sms_spam.html
The Future of Wireless Spam - www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/articles/2002dltr0021.html
Mobile Phone Spam - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_spam
Mobile Spam - www.mobilespam.org/

SMS Spam Protection

How to Block Cellphone Spam - pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/how-to-block-cellphone-spam/
AdaptiveMobile - www.adaptivemobile.com/
Symantec Smartphone Security - www.symantec.com/norton/smartphone-security
Trend Mobile Security - trendmicro.com/mobilesecurity
SMS Spam Manager - www.webgate.bg/products/ssm/ - Symbian
TextGuard - www.textguard.com/

Related

• Network Based Client Side Spam Filters
• Mobile Device Spam Filtering

US SMS Spam

Unwanted Text Messages and E-Mail on Mobile Devices - www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/canspam.html
Spam Makes the Leap from Computers to Cell Phones - www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1305087/spam_makes_the_leap_from_computers_to_cell_phones/index.html?source=r_technology
Timberland pays $7m to settle SMS spam lawsuit - www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/timberland_sms_lawsuit_payout/
Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive - www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/technology/10spam.html

UK SMS Spam

SOS SMS - www.grumbletext.co.uk/page.php?pn=gtsossms
Mobile Marketing Association - mmaglobal.com/uk/
Orange (UK Mobile Provider): we can help stop spam - www1.orange.co.uk/about/contact/spam/
Two thirds of Britons victims of “mobile spam” according to survey - www.cloudmark.com/serviceproviders/media/releases/?release=2008-04-22

Italian SMS Spam

Contro lo spam SMS - www.portel.it/articoli/approfondimento/07-2003/normativa-ue-la-gsma-apprezza-sforzo-contro-lo-spam-sms.html

Dutch SMS Spam

SMSafzeggen.nl - www.smsafzeggen.nl/

French SMS Spam

Le 33700: un numéro spécial pour protéger les consommateurs - www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/chantiers/croissance_847/33700_un_numero_special_61422.html

Chinese SMS Spam

China sets up hotline for spam complaints - www.cctv.com/english/20080430/104203.shtml