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Another unwanted text message. Millions of promotions are now being sent out every week enticing us with bogus prize draws and special offers. Chris Derby' s 14yearold daughter received one of those sort of unsolicited texts on her mobile. I was angry that the message company was tempting youngsters to make phone calls to complete strangers, and secondly to invite them to make premium rate calls unannounced. Well so far this year, the telephone regulator has received 800 complaints about unsolicited or misleading text messages, and there' s a similar number of complaints involving faxes, emails too. This one, for example, it' s quite flattering. You might be tempted to ring, but if you do, it' s a premium rate number that costs a fortune. Companies have been fined but still the complaints roll in. Businesswoman Anna Coren' s been besieged by emails asking her to invest in a bogus bank. This morning I got very upset. I called the Trading Standards and complained about it, and they told me that they receive lots of telephone calls and lots of complaints, and if I was, er, to take part in this deal, I would have had to spend at least 300 out of my own money, which I would never see again. You can bar calls to premium rate services and register to stop unwanted contact from legitimate businesses, but rogue firms are a problem. The regulations can' t keep up with the new technology. With the next generation phones with visual, um, content, it' s going to be really important that consumers have more power than they have today to decide what they want to see and what they want their children to see. Tighter rules are coming in next year, but for now it' s either complain about it or bin it. Nicola Carslaw, BBC News. |
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yòu yī tiáo lā jī duǎn xìn. xiàn zài měi zhōu dōu yǒu shù bǎi wàn tiáo tuī xiāo duǎn xìn bèi fā sòng chū, yòng yà gēn bù cún zài de chōu jiǎng hé tè bié zèng pǐn lái yǐn yòu wǒ men shàng dàng. Chris Derby 14 suì nǚ ér de shǒu jī céng shōu dào yī tiáo zhè lèi wèi dìng zhì de duǎn xìn. wǒ hěn nǎo huǒ, duǎn xìn gōng sī yǐn yòu qīng shào nián gěi mò shēng rén dǎ diàn huà, jìn ér yāo qǐng tā men bō dǎ jiā shōu fèi yòng de fú wù diàn huà, què bù tí xǐng gào zhī. jīn nián dào mù qián wéi zhǐ, diàn huà guǎn lǐ bù mén jiē dào 800 cì yǒu guān wèi dìng zhì duǎn xìn huò yǒu wù dǎo xìn xī de tóu sù, dāng rán hái yǒu tóng yàng duō de guān yú chuán zhēn diàn zǐ yóu jiàn de lèi sì tóu sù. lì rú, zhè tiáo duǎn xìn jiù xiāng dāng yòu rén. nǐ hěn kě néng shòu dào yòu huò bō dǎ diàn huà, dàn jiǎ rú nǐ dǎ le, zhè qià hǎo shì gè jiā shōu fèi yòng de fú wù diàn huà, jià gé áng guì. suī rán zhèi xiē gōng sī yǐ bèi chù yǐ fá kuǎn, dàn tóu sù hái shì yī jiù fēng yōng ér zhì. nǚ shāng rén Anna Coren céng yī zhí bèi diàn zǐ yóu jiàn kùn rǎo, zhèi xiē yóu jiàn jiào tā tóu zī yī jiā xū jiǎ yín háng. jīn zǎo wǒ tè bié jǔ sàng. wǒ gěi mào yì biāo zhǔn dǎ diàn huà, tóu sù zhè jiàn shì, ér tā men gào sù wǒ tā men jiē dào guò xǔ duō diàn huà, tīng dào xǔ duō bào yuàn. rú guǒ wǒ zhēn yào chān huo zhè shì, wǒ dé zì tāo yāo bāo, zhì shǎo 300 yīng bàng, ér zhè bǐ qián wǒ jiāng zài yě jiàn bú dào le. nǐ kě yǐ jìn bō jiā shōu fèi yòng de fú wù diàn huà, zhù cè zǔ zhǐ yǔ bù xū yào de hé fǎ qǐ yè lián xì, dàn wú lài qǐ yè chéng wéi le yī dà huò huàn. nèi xiē guī zhāng zhì dù gēn bu shàng xīn jì shù de biàn huà. suí zhe xià yī dài kě shì diàn huà de chū xiàn, yòng hù men bǐ jīn tiān gèng yǒu quán lì xuǎn zé xiǎng kàn shén me yǐ jí xiǎng ràng hái zi kàn shén me, zhè diǎn jí jiāng zhēn zhēng yì yì zhòng dà. míng nián jiāng chū tái gèng yán gé de guī dìng, dàn xiàn zài zhǐ néng yào me bào yuàn yào me pāo zhī nǎo hòu. yīng guó guǎng bō gōng sī Nicola Carslaw bào dào. |