SMS scammers now onto Paypal users

Hello All,Please watch out for the following M.O.:
This crowd sign up for SMS service and tells you they do managed sends.
Then they buy small volumes between 20-50 Euro at a time using different
email addresses.
When you ask about the different email addresses they claim it is to
refer to the client that they are sending for.
No later than a week or so, they disappear and the chargebacks from
Paypal starts. When you present your case to Paypal they refund no
matter what you submit. Two people contacted us and stated that they
did not do the transactions. In the mean time you loose the money they
paid, and they sent SMS which means you paid your supplier. Paypal
refunds every time and you sit at a loss. They seem to do this for a
week or two and then disappear. We advised the people that contacted us
that they should immediately ask their credit card company to change
their card and contact details as these people obviously sit with their
credit card details which they use to do these transactions.
The so-called "clients" appear to give false addresses from destinations
like Malaysia. They used the following usernames to register:
abolasso
bobbydean1
walkingdal
jbless4
We can give IP addresses but chances are that they send from different
locations all the time.

Joerg Lamber active again

Please note that Joerg Lamber tends to activate his scam when SS7 fix id
routes are down. At the moment there are only modem routes available so
he is active again offering unbelievable offers to users.Please be vigilant and only offer to buy a small volume even if the
price is higher. He will be taking you for a ride.

Fraud towards Agreegators Beware of Some Of German and Greece Companies

Be careful from the companies contacting you, asking you to terminate SMS to the following networks:
Antarctica, Sweden Tigo, Greece , San Marino, Angola prefix 6914 and to MVNO in Mexico(I do not remember the name)

*Sweden Tigo has no subscribers
*Greece prefix 6914 has no subscribers

Miraculous, the SMS sent to this destinations, end up to Germany E+, Movistar Spain, Tim Italy.

The Fraudester are companies from Germany and Greece.





They Manuplate the IMSI in messages and re-route actual sms to AA19 destinations.
They will Send sms to Non AA19 destinations like Antarctica and San Marino one of the Agregator has ss7 from San Marino and Antarctica.

I can provide more details with name and complete flow diagram contact at rajdip@routesms.com for more details

The Senders are mostly German.
The scam is that they change the Destination, so the aggregator is selling something like 0.01 EUR to the 'client', but he ends up paying 0.07 EUR.

SMS.TV SMS SCAM AND FRAUD

 Hi Guys

Please beware of company called as SMS.TV. THEY ARE FRAUD AND 100% CHEAT.There are about 100 of companies who are suffered loss due to this company.lets come together and fight against this cheat called as Joerg lamber

The guy’s name is Jorg Lamber from Germany and he has several different company names under which he operates. (Geißenbrünnchen 32, 66539 Neunkirchen, Germany, +49 6821 1799264) Other names he operates under are Marketing Lambers, Saarpromotion Lamber GmbH – Emails: info@sms.tv, joerg.lambers@sms.tv, support@sms.tv
Here is his MO:
He does 2 things:
1) He uses free email accounts like the one in this URL to promote his fraudulent service: http://www.klenn.de/news//OnlineMail700.html
2) He let you test on a high quality route and when you buy, he degrades the route to low quality or a route where you get false message id’s. When you ask for tech support or confront him about it he close your account and block you on email, MSN, ICQ etc. and when you phone there is just an automated recording that plays.
3) His second trick is not considered fraud by the banks – what he does is give the bank account number of one account at one branch and an IBAN of another account at another branch on his invoices. He requires payment upfront which is not unusual in the SMS industry. The banks use IBAN for international transfers – when you try to stop funds and phone his bank, they do not ask for the IBAN but the bank account number and put a stop funds instruction on that account. In the mean time, the funds goes into the account linked to the IBAN number and when the banks phone him when funds are recalled, he refuse to refund. He also closes your SMS test account the moment he realize that you sent the money. So you sit without money and without the service. Once again he blocks you and cuts of all communication.
So please learn from our mistakes and avoid dealing with SMS.tv as they are the biggest fraudulent scam in the SMS industry. They have been reported to all authorities for prosecution but he bought a hotel in Thailand with the stolen money and most likely run the scam from there.

Mobile ad market to reach $6 bn by 2014: Juniper Research

With increasing mobile penetration in India, mobile advertising will be critical in reaching rural audience. Companies are using voice-based services to overcome barriers of languages

Mobile advertising is bubbling with enthusiasm and activity. The mobile is emerging as next advertising and marketing medium and India ia evolving as a hottest destination for mobile advertisers. And it is evident from the number of mobile advertising companies that have cropped up in past few years.

According to projections from Juniper Research, mobile advertising spending will swell to nearly $6 bn by 2014 from just $1.4 bn this year. Advertising space is increasingly moving towards 'below the line activities' such as mobile phone ads-offering umparrelled opportunity for consumer segment.

Mobile web advertising alone is projected to grow fourfold to a $2 bn market over the same period, according to New York Times projections. The growth will be generated by a surge in mobile internet usage, and an accompanying increase in consumer adoption of mobile internet services. Juniper expects much of the growth to come from emerging markets such as China and India, where fixed-line connectivity remains low. For example, mobile accounted for nearly 90% of all internet users in India in 2008.

Industry sources say 22% companies are expected to increase their mobile advertising spend in FY 2009 as compared to 15% that companies did so 2008. Telecom and FMCG sectors are investing around Rs 20 crore to Rs 35 crore on this medium to communicate their product messages in rural area. With increasing mobile penetration in India, mobile advertising will be critical in reaching rural audience. Companies are using voice-based services to overcome barriers of languages.


As compared to other forms of advertising like TV, internet, radio etc, mobile is evolving at a rapid pace because it is considered more cost effective, personalized and result driven. According to a report from Mind Commerce, examining the current mobile marketing and advertising market in India more and more companies are using the medium of mobile to leverage it as a platform to enhance brand awareness and increase sales effectiveness.

Mind Commerce estimates the world market for mobile marketing and advertising revenues will reach nearly $50 bn by 2014, up from about $ 29 bn today, growing at a five year CAGR rate of nearly 12%.

Today the growth of mobile advertising is fueled by improvement in mobile devices from hand phones, mobile TV,search engines and it also offers operators a new revenue stream from companies promoting their brand, innovative ways to drive business and increase user satisfaction.

With an increasing proliferation of mobile phones and mobile internet, mobile advertising is being considered as the new catalyst for generating revenues. Few years back, mobile advertising was a niche market but now it is gaining momentum among operators, service providers and handsets manufacturers.

One of the biggest factor driving the mobile advertising market in India is the tremendous growth of the Indian telecom sector. The cost of talking on mobile is very low in India. It is extremely cost efficient to use mobile for interaction and mobile platform is creating big opportunities for advertisers to use this medium and expand their reach.

Realizing the huge potential of mobile advertising in India, many new players are expected to enter this space in the coming few months. It is also expected that many small and medium VAS players will move into mobile advertising space. Advertising via mobile is more appealing as it can target user more directly. In a bid to realise the potential of this emerging medium, some companies in India are very active in this space and already started offering innovative services like sms 2.0 technology from Affle, MyToday service from Netcore Solutions, SMS Gupshup from Webaroo and mGinger service from GingerSoft Media.

Indian mobile advertising market looks poised for huge growth in future. New developments in the field like 3G technology, GPRS and mobile video are likely to create immense opportunities for mobile advertising to grow. However there are several bottlenecks that must be overcome before mobile advertising can live up to the expectations which includes network speed, quality of service, lack of business models, lack of devices etc.

SMS to YSR's security officer helped track chopper wreckage

An SMS received by a mobile phone of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S R Reddy's security officer John Wesley after the VVIP helicopter crashed is what provided the most crucial clue to trace the accident site, government officials said here today.

"The most innovative means to locate the accident site of the Bell-430 helicopter was adopted this morning by tracking the signal from a mobile phone of one of the passengers on board the helicopter. The mobile phone had received an SMS at 1206 hours yesterday, about two-and-half hours after the helicopter had gone missing from the radar," they said.

Though they refused to divulge details of the service provider or the contents of the SMS, the officials said with the help of the last signal from the mobile phone the crisis committee set up in Hyderabad decided to concentrate their search for Reddy's helicopter within a four-km radius from the spot where the mobile phone signal was tracked.

On the suggestion of the IAF representative in the crisis committee, two Chetak helicopters from Hakimpet Helicopter Training School (HTS) of the Air Force was launched this morning at 6.30 Hours and after a two-hour search they found the wreckage around 0830 hours.

LABROC (Class Based Operator Level Routing and Accounting) Launched By RouteSms Solutions Limited

LABROC (Class Based Operator Level Routing and Accounting)
The LABROC Messaging platform acts an aggregator by receiving messages from various Users, using the different types of interfaces supported (SOAP, SMPP, Desktop, Web Client and HTTP) and then processes these messages and forwards them to the destination Routes.

Product Features: -

• Follows the widely supported SMPP v3.4 standard for messaging.
• No vendor, lock in. Add SMPP based routes from multiple vendors easily.
• Finer grained control on pricing, define prices at the Country or even at Operator level.
• Supports high speed asynchronous SMPP Mode for sending messages.
• Define routing rules based on the coverage area of your Route(s).
• Routing and Accounting rules organized into Classes to simplify management.
• Available as a Web Service for Users to send messages.
• Desktop Application included, with logo and interface customized as per your specifications. Users can not only connect and send messages, but also manage their contacts, distribution lists and so on.
• Supports Delivery Reports
• Web Interface for Users, customized with your logo, with same features as provided by desktop application

User Connectivity :-
1. SMPP : Direct SMPP Connectivity available for your users to connect to, for sending messages as well as receiving delivery reports, supports the widelyadopted SMPP version-3.4 standard, so any third party SMPP client can be used for sending messages or receiving delivery reports.

2. Desktop Application : Branded desktop application for your users to connect and send large volumes of messages directly without the hassles using any third party SMPP client.

3. SOAP: Available as a web service to use for sending large volumes of messages.

4. Web Interface: Branded web interface for your users to send messages, manage contacts and view delivery reports and so on.

5. HTTP API : An HTTP API for sending messages which your users can embed in their own applications to send messages easily without resorting to web services or SMPP.

For more Details about LABROC please visit http://www.routesms.com/