October 3, 2006
Entrapment by mobile phone now available via website
Sharpmail, a service offering anonymous e-mail and SMS launched 18 months ago, enabling subscribers to send an e-mail or text message that appears to come from someone else's mobile phone. The Scotsman reports.
"The service has been used primarily by suspicious spouses to entrap their partner into revealing an infidelity, according to site founder Danny Fletcher.
But it has also been used by amateur matchmakers to unite love-lorn but reticent friends; by workers to cause panic among colleagues through bogus texts from the boss, and even from parents sending friendly text exchanges to children from Santa Claus at Christmas.
The site, which is located at www.sharpmail.co.uk sells bundles of fake text messages for around £1 each. It also allows users to send emails from any address.
... The website currently receives 1.3 million hits a month and 200 new users sign up each day."
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