‘Will illegal spam decrease?’ – Introduction of certification for bulk text message sending.

KISA’s key efforts in the latter half of the year [Provided by KISA],
, ‘The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) announced that a qualification certification system for mass text messaging service providers will be implemented this month.’,
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, ‘The certification system for mass text messaging service providers requires businesses that provide mass text transmission services through the internet to obtain transmission qualification certification from a text relay business before starting their services, in order to send commercial texts.’,
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, ‘The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) and KISA will review and approve the results of the transmission qualification certification examination, and will deliberate and decide on corrective measures and sanctions against violators.’,
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, ‘On the 30th of last month, KISA’s Director of Digital User protection, Jeong Wonki, explained at a press conference, “The ratio of spam in mass text messages has been increasing by about 3% on average every six months,” and “Recently, spam related to gambling, stocks, and investment solicitation accounts for 59% of all spam and is on the rise, and overseas spam texts are also increasing,” explaining the reasons for implementing the system.’,
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, ‘KISA also announced that measures will be taken this month to restrict the re-sending of spam texts based on blacklisted originating numbers.’,
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, ‘This system involves setting the originating numbers of text spam reported multiple times on a blacklist, and when shared with text relay businesses, they will block all texts sent from those numbers.’,
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, ‘As of the 1st, originating numbers of text spam reported more than 50 times will be designated as blacklisted, and the blocking period will be three months from the registration date.’,
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