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Criminal Impact of SMS
In October 2001, a Filipino immigrant who was
living in Belgium was arrested by the police after his friend sent him a joke
short message acting to be the world's most-wanted terrorist. The message was
"I was wondering if I can stay with you for a couple of days. Everybody's
so angry at me. And I really need a friend. Yours truly, Osama bin Laden."
In June 2004, a British punk rock fan was
questioned by the police about a text message sent to a wrong number containing
lyrics from "Tommy Gun" by The Clash: "How about this for Tommy
Gun? OK - so let's agree about the price and make it one jet airliner for 10
prisoners." .
In February 2005, an Australian company
SMSzone.com created a controversial SMS spoofing service letting the message to
be masked, anonymous, and thus completely unidentifiable. With masked short
messages it is possible to impersonate someone else by making the message appear
to be from a different phone. This facilitates Spam, mobile fraud, defamation,
and other undesirable uses.
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