2014 annual report harassing phone calls: telephone harassment amounting to 27 billion nationwide peaked in October
On February 3, the numbers pass hand in hand Beijing sogou Web site jointly issued a joint denial platform the 2014 annual report of harassing phone calls. Report in 2014, harassing phone calls as many as 27 billion, including harassing phone calls, a total of 9.26 billion nationwide in the fourth quarter, an increase by a factor of 1.9 times. Regional features, become the birthplace of harassing phone calls the largest in Guangdong, Beijing, for example, become the victims of harassing phone calls.
According to sogou number pass data report displayed, 2014 national harassment phone total up to 27 billion pass and in Qian 10 months to monthly growth for 19.9% of speed continued higher, early of when harassment phone volume minimum, until October reached peak, only October harassment phone number on up 3.73 billion pass, thereafter in November has fell; IV quarter national harassment phone total for 9.26 billion pass, and 2013 compared with growth has 1.9 times times.
Chart number harassing phone calls months across 3.1.1:2014 years distribution
2014 harassing phone calls showed regional characteristics, in which Guangdong as the birthplace of harassing phone calls the largest, Beijing is the worst-hit by harassing phone calls. From call out to view, Guangdong is last year harassment phone maximum of birthplace, call out 3.51 billion pass harassment phone, Shanghai, and Beijing, and Shandong, 10 province are for Super 1 billion pass of “high yield” area; and call into to aspects, Guangdong still home first, accounted for than 16%, second is Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, and Shandong, and Sichuan, Beijing per capita harassment phone high out national average level of 2.27 times times, affected most serious. From the perspective of large regions of the country, economically developed areas in North China, East China and South China brunt and become the victims of harassing phone calls.
Distribution chart 4.2.1:2014 year type of harassing phone calls
Reports indicate that in 2014, harassing phone calls, nearly 70% from a landline and 2.68 times compared with the same period in 2013 growth, growth in mobile phones than fixed from classification perspective, mainly rang, suspected irregularities and fraud, advertising, marketing, real estate agents, among them, ring out the highest proportion, 42.7%, suspected of fraud percentage increase compared with last year. In addition, the harassing phone calls are periodically distributed per week, with Saturday as the peaks down to the side, but the Japanese see working hours is high time, after 8 o’clock in the evening to night-time greatest impact on users. Suggesting that harassing phone calls not only hides potential economic loss, has affected the public’s normal life.
Chart 4.5.1: harmful to users suspected of fraud calls
Report, 2015 new year just around the corner, is prone to making telephone to remind mobile phone users to be vigilant, to have greater awareness of, and identification for the user, such as kidnapping, impersonating a parent ten common scams. Worth noting is that change, the proliferation of software use, making blocking software harassing phone calls the difficulty of shielding larger, many criminals use characteristics of high reliability in a particular number in a public series of fraudulent use of 400, 110, fraud, public guard against.
The experts called for governance harassing phone calls need to have legal support should accelerate the process of legal construction, form an effective working mechanism from a regulatory and institutional control of harassing phone calls, while carriers and handset anti-harassment software vendors, to strengthen discipline and management, technical improvements, and strengthen the supervision and punishment of agents.