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Spammers Start Abusing Cell Phones

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-only-gonna-get-worse dept.

slimyrubber writes "Just when you thought that spam couldnt get any worst, Cell phones are becoming the latest target of electronic junk mail, with a growing number of marketers using text messages to target subscribers. Is cell-phone spam likely to evolve into something that big, something approaching the scale of e-mail spam? Not if you help to kill SMS spam where it starts. Hopefully."

2 of 266 comments (clear)

  1. the worst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And just when you thought butchering the English language couldn't get any worst...

  2. You know what this means! by SushiFugu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fast forward a year or so from now: "Ask Slashdot: Where Do Dummy Cell Phone Numbers Go?"