Special SIM cards for text voting in contests? Weird.
I love shows that do audience participation. Especially in the form of SMS voting for talent shows like American Idol. Well, we have our own franchise back here called Philippine Idol. And as a fan of these talent shows that, I’ve become a little disturbed with some developments in blatant SMS padding of votes. For instance, applications such as SMSPal exist that turns your phone into an SMS Machine gun spitfiring the same SMS to the same number multiply times.
But that’s fine really as you will come to realize that these SMS voting campaigns really have some form of business model behind it for carriers to make more money. Just don’t be too obvious I guess. I’ve heard of a special prepaid SIM card that allegedly exists that allows the person to send the entire preloaded amount to one number — made exclusively for SMS voting.
Now isn’t that too over the top? I can fire up this SIM card onto my phone and send 10 dollars worth of text to vote for my favorite candidate. If the entire town does this, you’ll have thousands of people “text padding” their millions of votes. I’d really love to know if this technology does exist in one form or the other. A special SIM for this purpose implies that the technology is made by the telco and not by some third party hacker. Are these true? Would love to hear from you guys.
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