New Delhi, March 06: Tired of junk messages flooding your cell phone inbox? Try SMSAssassin — a software that segregates spams from regular messages.
Being a cheap option to reach the masses, Short Message Service(SMS) are being widely used by marketeers for offering value added services and advertisement. However, these spam messages is a problem for all mobile users because the inbox gets full with advertising messages or even with infected attachments.
Even the countermeasures offered by the government has failed to stop spam SMSes.
According to available data, in India an estimate 100 million spam messages are sent every day. Companies dedicated for SMS-based advertising solution have been launched and they are able to reach to 1,00,000 people in about Rs 3,500.
“This is what inspired us to come up with SMSAssassin,” Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, assistant professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology – Delhi, said.
“SMSAssasin performs the spam filtering automatically.
——PTI