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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Chinese mobile phone users are being flooded with spam text messages。Chinese mobile phone users are being flooded with spam text messages ,with 6.25 per cent of them receiving spam more than 40 times a week, according to a survey by the China Internet Society.
The survey, released on Tuesday, shows that 35 per cent of all 4,721 users questioned across the country receive five to 10 spam messages a week, while 15 per cent get 10 to 20. On average, each user receives at least eight spam messages a week, questionnaires show. Common junk messages include advertisements, swindles, information on illegal selling of vehicles, weapons or fake diplomas, and short message services (SMS) that users never signed up for.However, the survey shows that only 6.1 per cent of users have ever appealed to supervisory departments and about half of them do not know how to cancel unwanted SMS subscriptions.