"An 18-year-old girl earns an astonishing 5 million yuan a month", "Confessions of a seller of A-grade goods"... The source of all this is information leakage. Users' personal information is collected invisibly during Internet browsing.

"18-year-old girl makes an astonishing 5 million a month", "Confessions of a seller of A goods"... Recently, these iMessage spam messages that have inexplicably invaded your iPhone have even crossed the sea and rushed to the island country of Japan... If If you told me you never received it, then I think you must have bought a fake iPhone.

has been paying attention to the proliferation of iMessage spam on Apple iPhones for some time. Apple has also responded to media reports and stated that it is exploring more ways to further reduce spam, including using more advanced machine learning models to identify spam. information, and launching more tools to block malicious sending accounts.

First of all, do you know why iMessagae is flooded with spam messages?

The reason is that iMessage spam has now formed a related industry chain, and the source of all this is information leakage. Users’ personal information is collected invisibly during Internet browsing, and one of these industry chains In the first step, a dedicated person and machine are responsible for sorting out the user's phone or email ID information, and then using a program to send iMessage spam messages in bulk. The final victims are the users.

Even on some online platforms, the industry of sending iMessages has arisen. The price is usually 0.12 yuan per message. If the quantity is large, the price can be as low as 8 cents per message. Moreover, it is a "one-stop" service. Some sellers even It claims to have a powerful and reliable user database and can send spam messages in a targeted manner according to customer needs.

So how can you avoid being harassed by spam messages while using iMessage?

The main methods collected here by the editor are as follows:

1. Users can go to Settings-Message-Blacklist to blacklist numbers that send spam messages.

2. In addition, you only need to find Settings - Notifications - Information in iOS, then find the iMessage reminder that displays the following people and check Only My Address Book to complete. As long as only iMessage messages sent by contacts in the address book are received, those sent by IDs such as email addresses will not be displayed. A drawback of this setting is that if a stranger also uses an iPhone, normal iMessage messages sent by strangers will also be intercepted.

3. Turn off iMessage directly. The consequence will be to give up the iMessage service and not be able to receive iMessage messages.

4, remove the email address , and only use the mobile phone number as the iMessage contact method, but the problem was not completely solved after the Chinese news reporter tested it.

5. Report Apple ID to Apple officials to completely delete spam user addresses. Spam senders can send spam messages in bulk through number segment scanning and change the IP address or Apple ID when sending. If you receive spam messages sent through iMessage, you can report it to Apple.

The specific method is as follows:

1) Report the AppleID through Apple-Legal; (Select PhishingandSpam in the menu)

2) Send an email directly to [email protected],

reporting address: http://www.apple.com/legal/ contact/

6. Use the t scripting language to control the program running on MacOS. You can "bounce" iMessage spam back, allowing the sender to continue receiving it until it crashes. But this method is only available on Mac.

7, Apple officials also provided corresponding methods. A statement issued by relevant departments to reporters from China News Service showed that SMS fraudextension was launched in iOS 11, allowing third-party APPs to detect potential spam text messages and transfer them to them. into a dedicated folder. Apple said in a statement that it is exploring more ways to further reduce spam, including using more advanced machine learning models to identify spam and launching more tools to block malicious sending accounts.

8 and Tencent Butler are an effective third-party APP. After Tencent Butler turns on ARP continuous protection, it will continue to monitor and protect the entire WiFi connection cycle. The specific process is as follows:

The first step is to open Tencent Mobile Manager and click [Protection Monitoring].

Step 2: Click [Harassment Blocking], then click the [Gear Logo] in the upper right corner to enter settings.

Step 3: Select [Blacklist], and then click the [Add] button below.

Step 4: Tencent Mobile Manager provides a variety of adding methods. Take [Manually enter the interception number] as an example. Enter the number to be intercepted and the name of the note, and check the interception mode (phone call, SMS) below and click [OK] That’s it.

Of course, in addition to solutions provided by professional organizations, users should also be aware of prevention. Do not connect to password-free WiFi at will, be wary of all operations that require authentication certificates, be careful not to click on links at will, and do not trust information such as winning prizes... Only by strengthening your vigilance about personal information security can you fundamentally prevent the use of personal information. Loss, thus reducing the number of spam text messages. Everyone must memorize how to deal with spam text messages!