With more a more forms of communication grows the potentiality of spam texts. They are certainly unwanted as they mean invasion to your personal information, commercial traps, fraud, etc. They aim at robbing you by accessing your personal data. Scamming is always evolving, alongside the strategies for detection and the filters to block them. There are some “classic” spams, but there are always new foul means to reach you.
However there are ways to detect spam in SMS, emails and whatsapp. If you happen to receive a text message from a number with more than 10 digits, that will certainly be scam. An alarming text asking for help for some family crisis from an unknown number is definitely aiming at tricking the recipient. A message informing about an overcharge for a service will for sure be fishy, especially if you are requested to give your bank information for a direct deposit. Or else they use the bait of random prizes, cash or goods for which they request your bank details…Alert! Danger!
There are some strategies you can use to protect yourself. First of all do not respond if you are not certain about the sender. STOP can be the most effective reply when there is insistence. You can block the number to stop receiving messages from that forwarder. But definitely the best you can do to protect yourself and the community is to report spammers to the authorities. These are the surface approaches that prevent you from falling for spam texts, but there are others.
Developers are constantly at work devising APIs that work as a shield to defend users from scamming. They operate as filters that are placed at the gate (your internet connection) and at your devices, both desktop and hand-handled. You must bear in mind that you got a spam text because someone accessed your number without consent. It is essential that you understand that if you receive a message from a scammer it is an illegal action.
Spam Detection API is a platform integrated with Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing that generates algorithms to scan incoming texts to track spam. In the case of emails, this software will automatically send a suspect message to the junk box. In the case of SMS it will warn you that it comes from an unknown contact and that it is probably spam, or activate an alert for you to decide whether to open it or not.
Zyla Labs has a set of integrated APIs for this purpose, namely Anti Spam Filter API, Block Spammers API, Prevent Spam API, Spam Checker API, and others, that protect you, your family, your privacy, your personal information from havoc. Machine Learning contributes to strengthen these anti-spam solutions that scan all types of messages to track the IP, email or domain to see if they are blacklisted. This suite of APIs presents also a firewall solution that will block spam even before it reaches your server.
The API scrutinizes text content, both subject and body, as well as header and forwarder, against the trained models the platform is constantly building up, and returns a score which marks the likelihood of the message to pass the filters and be apt for your inbox. Software is constantly evolving and adjustments tend to give 100% guarantee that you are safeguarded, but it is the common user`s duty to be cautious about incoming texts, and do contributions to the spam filters that protect you.