12321 · ISC / MIIT · Monthly · 2016 – 2019

China — 12321 telecom-spam report statistics

The 12321 网络不良与垃圾信息举报受理中心 (12321 Internet Bad & Spam Information Reporting Center), run by the Internet Society of China under the MIIT, was China's national hotline for reporting telecom / internet nuisance and spam. From 2016-09 to 2019-02 it published a monthly bulletin tallying how many public reports it received per category — malicious apps, junk & illegal SMS, harassment calls, bad websites, comms fraud and spam email. The telecom-spam complement to the CAC/12377 content-reporting series: a different agency and remit. The series was discontinued after Feb 2019. Early (2016) figures are exact counts; from 2017 they are rounded to 万 (ten-thousands). Pin a category before aggregating: sms already sums sms_spam + sms_illegal.

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Reports received each month, by category

Malicious-app, total-SMS, harassment-call and bad-website reports the 12321 center received per month. Volumes are exact in 2016 and rounded to 万 (ten-thousands) from 2017.

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SMS reports: spam vs. illegal, by month

The two disjoint parts of the monthly SMS total — junk (垃圾类) vs. suspected-illegal (涉嫌违法类) short messages.

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Reports received, by category and month

The monthly figures the 12321 center published, per report category. sms is the monthly total and sms spam + sms illegal are its two parts (so they don't add to the other columns); fraud comms and spam email appear in the 2016-era bulletins only. Counts are exact in 2016 and 万-rounded from 2017.

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