Abstract
There is growing concern within the telecoms industry that network operators might be missing the boat. The announcement last year of Apple's iMessage has added to this concern, as have other Over The Top (OTT) services such as those launched by major players including Skype and Research In Motion (with the popular BlackBerry Messenger). Mobile operators are starting to feel left out. Rich Communications Suite (RCS) might be their salvation, but is it also an opportunity for phishers, fraudsters and spammers? If operators look to provide a gateway between SMS and RCS services, spammers could hide within RCS services and use this as a haven for sending messages over SMS. And as RCS works on a one-to-many basis, spam could be sent to many thousands of handsets at once. Neil Cook of Cloudmark examines the dangers and how they might be averted.
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