What are the risks in case of abusive use?
The service being free doesn't erase the sender's responsibility.
Abusive sends can lead to the number or IP address being blocked. Harassment, threats and unlawful messages remain offences, traceable and disclosable to the authorities.
Diverting the service to cause harm exposes you to the same penalties as through any other channel. The fact that sending is free puts no one beyond the reach of the law.
The answer in detail
Harassment, threats, blackmail or sending illicit content are criminal offences. The fact that a message is free or sent from a gateway lessens neither the classification nor the penalty.
The service keeps the necessary technical logs and responds to legal requests: upon referral from the authorities, an abusive send can be tied to its author.
On the service side, detected abuses lead to blocks and reports. The goal is twofold: protect recipients and preserve a free, legitimate tool for all the other uses.
Concrete examples
›A harassment message
Repeated and malicious, it constitutes a prosecuted offence, being free included.
›Threat or blackmail
A serious offence; the logs may be disclosed to the courts.
Takeaway
Abusive use = a prosecuted offence; being free doesn't protect from prosecution.
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