US Cell Phone Users Discover SMS Spam

The Llama King writes "It's a bigger problem in Europe and Japan/Asia, but as SMS text messaging or "texting" becomes more popular in the United States, its users are discovering that spammers like it too, according to this Houston Chronicle story. Cell phone companies are trying to stem the spam flood before it starts, worried that users will turn off their phones, thus denying providers revenue."

Comments

Trying to sell me phones.

[caluml]

The worst thing about it? I work for a mobile phone company, I have the latest phones (GPRS, 3G, Bluetooth, MMS, etc) and all the calls paid for by that company, and yet, I still get messages like:

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Pah.

Thank you

[shibbydude]

I thought I had been going crazy. This has been happening to me for at least a month. I HATE SPAM!