Qtel fights overseas spam calls and text messages

Qatar: Qtel has said it is working to increase customer awareness to reduce the inconvenience of unwanted "spam" calls and SMS from foreign countries, the Peninsula has reported. The company said it noted an increase in suspicious calls that appear to come from Sierra Leone, Guinea, Sao Tomé and Principe, Austria and Latvia, all of which have limited call traffic to Doha in normal circumstances. The company urged customers not to answer calls from numbers that they do not recognise, and not to send SMS to short codes to organisations that they do not know. [AMEInfo.com]