Once upon a time, in addition to phone calls, text messages were an important medium for people to communicate.
However, with the development of mobile networks, the SMS market has suffered a huge blow, especially the rise of WeChat, which has given SMS a fatal blow.
Up to now, SMS has almost gradually become a "captcha receiver".
Of course, in addition to receiving verification codes, now text messages have also become a gathering place for all kinds of spam messages.
This includes, but is not limited to, all kinds of commercial marketing advertisements, as well as all kinds of fraudulent information, etc.
If it weren't for the ability to receive verification codes, many users would want to turn it off.
All in all, the situation of text messaging is not what it used to be.
I get a lot of spam text messages every day, but do you know that you can still claim compensation after being harassed?
A few days ago, an entry "Man sued for harassing text messages and was compensated 500 yuan" rushed to the hot search list.
According to media reports, recently, a man sued the platform to court because he received continuous advertising text messages.
The cause of the incident was that the man received commercial text messages from a lending platform for two consecutive days in November 2022.
The point is, the man said that he had not reserved the corresponding information on the loan platform.
After some inquiry, the man found that the user of the number that sent him the text message was a certain SMS platform company in Wuxi.
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The man believes that the SMS platform has violated his information protection rights and interests by sending commercial short messages to a real-name verified mobile phone number without his consent.
Based on this, the man filed a lawsuit with the court, demanding an apology from the platform and compensation of 500 yuan for moral damages.
Recently, the case received a final verdict.
After the trial, the court held that the actions of the SMS platform company had interfered with the man's life, and the platform failed to explain the legitimacy of the source of the number, which could lead to the leakage of personal information.
In the end, the court supported the netizen's claim, and the SMS platform apologized to the man and compensated 500 yuan.
In fact, the verdict has a legal basis.
As early as 2014, the newly revised Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests included spam text infringements in the charter.
The specific standard is the amount of compensation in this case of 500 yuan.
Speaking of which, it is estimated that there are already many students who can't hold it back, and they receive so many spam text messages every day, aren't they going to make a fortune?
Having said that, although we receive a lot of spam text messages every day, this 500 yuan is not so easy to earn.
If you really want to go through the prosecution process, you can start from collecting prosecution materials, then find a lawyer, prepare for the trial, and so on.
After this series of processes, it is estimated that many people will be discouraged.
The input-output ratio is so low, not to mention that it will waste a lot of time, and I am afraid that few people can afford to use energy.
I have to say that there seems to be no good way to completely cure all kinds of spam text messages nowadays.
It's good that users can turn a blind eye and "desensitize" spam text messages.
As for the final solution, it may be more practical to rely on operators to increase the operating cost of spam SMS.
In addition, mobile phone manufacturers and some technology developers are also strengthening the level of system interception and filtering and shielding technology.
For individual users, it is also very important to avoid the leakage of key information such as mobile phone numbers in life.
Finally, I hope that the garbage short-term will disappear as soon as possible!
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