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Services › Anti-Spam › Anti-Spam Statistics: December 2015

The Electronic Messaging Compliance Unit provides statistical information about TXT spam and scam complaints forwarded to the short code 7726.

Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification


Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification

Type of spamNumber received
Other Store Based Retail1
Clothing Retailing 1
Other Teleco Network Operation 1
Fuel Retailing 1
Pharmaceutical & Other Store Based Retailing 1
Hair Dressing & Beauty Services 1
Pubs, Taverns & Bars 1
Electronic Info Storage Services 1
Recreational Goods Retailing 1
Motor Vehicle Retailing 1
Supermarket & Grocery Stores 1
Tyre Retailing1
Gambling Activities2

Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification (XLSX, 40KB)**
Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification (CSV, 1KB)

Top 5 reported TXT scams


Top 5 suspected scam/fraud messages by campaign and SMS content for December 2015

Top scamsNumber received
BNZ44
Westpac19
Redbull17
Bernard Audit9
Other (5)10
  • Account notification http ://bnz-mobile .net
  • Account notification received http ://bnzaccount .com
  • BNZ MobileBank Internal message received http ://bnz-mobile .net
  • Dear banking customer, Please verify your mobile identity http ://bnzaccount .com
  • Dear banking customer, Your account is currently locked. Please verify your identity http ://bnzaccount .com
  • Dear BNZ Customer, You are eligible to receive a tax refund of 2105.70 $ http ://taxrefund.bnz.center
  • Dear BNZ customer, You have received a notification http ://bnzaccount .com
  • Dear BNZ Customer, You have received an internal notification. Http ://www.bnz-mobile .net
  • New message received http ://bnzaccount .com
  • You have a tax refund in pending http ://mobile.bnz.center
  • You have received a new message http ://taxrefund.bnz.center
  • Dear Customer, You have received a notification http ://westpac-mobile .net
  • Dear customer, You have received an internal notification http ://westpac-mobile .net
  • erika191 @ panet.rs Your PhoneNumber won £850, 000.00 in the RedBull Promotions.For claim, send an email to info.redbull1 @ gmail.com
  • erika191 @ panet.rs Your PhoneNumber won 850, 000.00GBP in the RedBull Promotions.For claim, send an email to info.redbull1 @ gmail.com
  • RE: Gift: Donation was made to you by Mr. Bernard Arnault. Reply to his email bernardarnult @ 163.com for details
Top 5 reported TXT scams (XLSX, 25KB)**
Top 5 reported TXT scams (CSV, 2KB)

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