> We use third-party services to send a registration code via SMS or voice call in order to verify that the person in possession of a given phone number actually intended to sign up for a Signal account. This is a critical step in helping to prevent spam accounts from signing up for the service and rendering it completely unusable—a non-trivial problem for any popular messaging app.
From their blogpost
That's completely incorrect. Signal has only the following data (backed up by what they have provided when served warrants[1], and what internal FBI documents state about Signal[2]:
Date and time a user registered.
Last date of a user’s connectivity to the service.
[2] https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=2111...
That would prevent spam. The only people who would hear from the non-verified account is people who already took the effort to place the non-verified account username in their contacts.
(I've never used Signal and I have no idea what how it works.)
> Registration Fees: $6 million dollars per year.
Avoid sending SHAFT content and shortened URLs if you don't want to get your text messages. Black hold or banned. S.H.A.F.T. is an acronym that stands for Sex, Hate, Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco
They should also add crypto to the list.
google kk park, fraud factory.
Burma/Myanmar is in a state of civil war, close to China and close to cheap Thai mobile internet access. Chinese started building fraud parks where they capture people and force them to serially scam people on fake bitcoin exchanges (it starts as online romance, turns to bitcoin scam). Mostly Chinese but also increasingly Europeans and Americans
nobody does anything because those fraud parks are tolerated by Burmese junta. They are on the border between Thailand and Burma
It's harder to spam with phones. Although, as they now do in Burma, they can just kidnap a lot of people from China and India and keep them as slaves and make them send spam from phones. But anyway that's a different story