iPhone users in China receive malicious messages on Imessage

iPhone in Beijing are exposed to a stream of iMessage In them, many of them encourage illegal gambling.

Many unwanted messages iMessage are related to the account WeChat or to the gambling sites, the game is illegal in Beijing, with the exception of two lotteries approved by the state.

The popularity of iMessage as a spam tool seems to come from the fact that spam messages sent by ordinary SMS messages are filtered by the three major mobile operators in Beijing And, therefore, they can disable spam by blocking some rejected keywords.

However, these companies can not do it with iMessage due to the fact that they are encrypted from one end to the other.Prevved the problem, Apple has Referred users to Beijing to its support page, which allows the user to prevent the individual spam sender by activating the function "Block this caller".