The cyber criminals are now beginning to target smartphone users. Even one of the 100 users of smartphones have become victims of fraud SMS.Launched by the Telegraph on Monday (8/11/2010), a mobile security company, AdaptiveMobile, predicts the spam emails have been fooled one of the one million users of mobile Internet. Cyber criminals persuade users to visit sites smartphone 'dangerous' as advertised.
Conversion rate of mobile spam on average approximately one percent higher. Even one SMS spam attacks can generate more than $ 10 million just in the next three days.
Types of fraud found AdaptiveMobile including the attacks that exploit the ability of smartphones to connect to the internet. Results from exploitation is called click fraud, criminal action involving Internet advertising on mobile phones to spread the virus.
SMS scams are the most frequently encountered are the messages that claim to smartphone users have won the prize. As a result, smartphone users will be instructed to reply to messages via a premium telephone number or SMS text.
"As spammers find a way to avoid the cost of bulk SMS delivery, traditional barriers to receiving spam on mobile phones has been removed," said Simeon Coney, VP Business Development AdaptiveMobile.
"The phone is a device that is personal and everyone would be more trusting of communication that goes through their handset, rather than the content in your email inbox. While mobile operators against crime at the level of the network, users also must play their role if you want to stay safe in a world that increasingly mobilePengguna Smartphone
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