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Being bugged by spam? Report it now

By Bai Ping | China Daily | Updated: 2015-01-16 07:11

If you live in Beijing and have bought a car or house in recent years, you should have already fallen prey to increasingly annoying and sophisticated spam text messages that dog you day and night.

A trickle of the unwanted texts started to arrive after I bought my home when I moved back to Beijing in 2005. They grew in intensity after I bought my first car a year later, bombarding me with offers from loans to sales promotions to housing advertisements.

Occasionally, the direct market is also laced with scams. Perhaps all high net-worth Chinese men, whose numbers the spammers have harvested illegally, have received texts from "college girls" who want to sell their virginity to raise money for their ailing fathers.

Being bugged by spam? Report it now

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