MessageSENTRY Spam Filter

Mobile-to-mobile SMS spam and fraud comes in many forms and can cause substantial damage with respect to customer satisfaction, financial performance and network operations. SMS spam and fraud is a rapidly growing problem with the most prevalent provider concerns being that it:

• Irritates subscribers and in turn increases churn, raises support costs and casts negative light on the carrier’s brand. Subscribers find spam annoying and many regard it as an invasion of privacy. It also results in unwarranted charges leading to customer frustration.
• Results in lost revenue for inter-carrier messages. With SMS fraud, the sender assumes the identity of a valid subscriber or SMSC, so the operator receives no termination fee
• Increases operational costs because of the large volumes of unauthorized messages. SMS spam and fraud can degrade network and SMSC performance and at times severely impact them.
• Damages the adoption of revenue-producing services. Spam can destroy trust in an operator, leading subscribers to opt-out of emerging mobile advertising and m-commerce opportunities.

Prevent SMS Spam and Fraud Transparently with MessageSENTRY Spam Filter

MessageSENTRY Spam Filter is equipped with the core capabilities needed to stop internet and mobile originated SMS attacks along with enhanced content filtering and advance control features that include setting message threshold levels, re-routing, modification and response. Competing solutions provide only the Signaling End-Point access/control option which limits their ability to solve all carrier requirements. MessageSENTRY provides a best practice vendor-agnostic approach using multiple signaling access methods.

Multiple Access Methods

• Transparent border filtering with an Active SS7 probe
• Signaling End-Point as an internal network addressable SS7 Point Code
• Native IP interface to the SMSC or STP
• SMPP Proxy between internet domain and the SMSC