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.

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