Here's how to SMS spam Liberal voters and get away with it

It's easy to spam voters with text messages and get away with it. If you wanted to swing voters ahead of a federal election, as the Australian Labor Party is alleged to have done in a message claiming a rival Liberal Coalition Government would privatise the nation's healthcare provider Medicare, you wouldn't send a text …

[Anonymous Coward]

An anon sms is stupid.

An anon sms gets ignored as the shite it is. You can't be bothered to identify yourself in your message then I can't be bothered to pay you any attention. Now fek off & cram that phone up yer arse ya twatwobble.

[bluesxman]

Re: An anon sms is stupid.

Mmmm ... irony.

[Anonymous Coward]

You left out don't shave for a week, dress in black and wear a hoodie.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oi!

I resemble that remark!

(And who wouldn't be hooded in this weather? Been frightfully cold lately even here in Brisbane.)

[Oengus]

You also left out - choose an internet cafe/Wifi hotspot across the road from a Liberal Party campaign office. Bonus points if you can piggyback onto the Wifi network in the campaign office.

[Adam 1]

I'm genuinely disgusted at the behaviour of whoever did this, but it's arguably a bit rich to be pulling out the victim card when your own players have been implicated.

[Anonymous Coward]

It used to be possible

To craft an SMS to appear as a network message...I used to do that at school with people's old Nokias. You just had to prefix the SMS with some select characters and boom. Network message.

Oh how I lol'd at my mate calling up BTCellnet to rage about his credit limit appearing to reduce to zero.