Cell phone spam daily plague for almost one in three Japanese
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As the proud owner of a spam-free cell phone, this survey reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by JR Tokai Express Research Inc into this topic of cell phone spam was rather interesting to see.
Demographics
Between the 1st and 4th of May 2008 312 members of the JR Tokai Express Research monitor group who were mobile phone email users completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.3% of the sample was female, 2.4% in their teens, 17.6% in their twenties, 37.6% in their thirties, 26.4% in their forties, 9.4% in their fifties, and 4.8% aged sixty or older. Looking at when a similar spam survey was conducted in February 2007, and following the usual pattern of JR Tokai Express Researh, the original sample was actually 330 or 331 people, so just over 5% did not have mobile phones.
One could interpret the results from Q1 to mean that once you’re on a spammer’s list you’re going to get hit badly, as dodgy Japanese companies (or even reputable ones like Rakuten) are not backward about flooding your mailbox or selling on your address. Of course, my PC mailbox for the blog is anything but spam-free, although my private address gets just one per day or so, thanks to POBox.com’s spam filtering.
Research results
Q1: How much cell phone spam do you get? (Sample size=312)
Ten or more per day (to SQs) 8.3% Several per day (to SQs) 18.6% One per day (to SQs) 4.8% One to three per week (to SQs) 2.6% One to three per month (to SQs) 3.5% Barely any (to SQs) 34.9% Never had any 26.9% Don’t know 0.3% The number getting spammed daily has almost doubled in a year!
Q1SQ1: Compared with last year, how has your cell phone spam volume changed? (Sample size=227)
Really increased 11.0% A little increased 14.1% Not changed 26.4% A little decreased 11.5% Really decreased 23.3% Don’t know 13.7% Q1SQ2: On which do you get more spam, home computer or cell phone? (Sample size=227)
Much more on PC 61.7% A little more on PC 12.3% Both about the same 9.3% A little more on mobile phone 7.5% Much more on mobile phone 9.3%
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Unfortunately spam is now an everyday feature of life I always make sure I opt out of email databases to minimise the amount of spam I receive, but I still seem to get a lot.