14 August 2006
Spam for your computer, mobile phone, and dinner
Spam is not only for your email anymore. Spammers have begun sending spam through text messages/SMS. With many mobile-phone users in the States being required to pay for messages received it can become costly.
Verizon Wireless says they are blocking about 50000 spam messages a day, while one California resident told Cingular to block all of his text messages because of spam.
For more information on the issue see this article.
Verizon Wireless says they are blocking about 50000 spam messages a day, while one California resident told Cingular to block all of his text messages because of spam.
For more information on the issue see this article.