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by Animats 3648 days ago
More like "Amazon AWS introduces worldwide SMS spamming". They changed their service from opt-in to opt-out. Even after the recipient opts out, the spammer can override and opt them back in against their will.[1] There's even an API for doing that in bulk.

Amazon's service seems to be one-way. They don't seem to support SMS receive at all. They just blast out crap from their own shortcodes.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sms_manage.html