{"id":29,"date":"2012-11-08T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simon.aldrich.eu\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2012-11-08T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:38:37","slug":"app-idea-sms-spam-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/2012\/11\/app-idea-sms-spam-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"App Idea : SMS Spam Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably not alone in getting quite a few &#8220;spam&#8221; SMS messages on my phone. Lately they&#8217;ve all been about PPI mis-selling but in the past they&#8217;ve been about dodgy loans, accident claims etc etc<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately all these messages come from mobiles that have been bought to bulk-send SMS spam and aren&#8217;t registered or legislated for in any way. The only recourse that you might possibly have against these are to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneysavingexpert.com\/phones\/stop-spam-texts#spam\" target=\"_blank\">report the text to your mobile phone operator<\/a> in the hope that they will block that number so that others aren&#8217;t inconvenienced.<\/p>\n<p>You obviously need to include the sender&#8217;s number when forwarding the spam text to 7226 or (87226 if you&#8217;re on Vodafone). On my phone, the &#8216;forward&#8217; function doesn&#8217;t do this automatically. So here&#8217;s my great app idea:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You set up a &#8220;blacklist&#8221; of words that usually appear in spam texts (e.g.: &#8220;PPI&#8221;, &#8220;claim&#8221; etc)<\/li>\n<li>When your phone receives a text with one of the blacklisted words it automatically pops up a dialog which shows you the text and asks you if you&#8217;d like to report it as spam.<\/li>\n<li>The app edits the text to include the original sender&#8217;s number and automatically forwards it to your operator&#8217;s SMS spam reporting number.<\/li>\n<li>The app then deletes the text from your text inbox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound too hard does it? It might even result in these spam merchants getting their comeuppance. So why can&#8217;t I find an app that will do this? All the anti-spam apps I can find want to filter messages out of my inbox and become my messaging app. I don&#8217;t want that, I just want to report these sons of guns.<\/p>\n<p>If I get a bit of free time this will be my first Android app (unless someone else makes it first).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably not alone in getting quite a few &#8220;spam&#8221; SMS messages on my phone. Lately they&#8217;ve all been about PPI mis-selling but in the past they&#8217;ve been about dodgy loans, accident claims etc etc Unfortunately all these messages come from mobiles that have been bought to bulk-send SMS spam and aren&#8217;t registered or legislated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Rw4E-t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simon.aldrich.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}