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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."

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  1. Hmm. by mindstrm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I seem to recall that in the US, telemarketing to cellular phones was illegal, as the receiver often pays for it directly.

    Wouldn't sms spam fall into the same category?

  2. The major problem with SMS spam... by ketamine-bp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is that
    (1) It is not easy to filter out, given the majority of people here now only uses phone that cannot be programmed easily (at least, not as easy as using the OE plugins or the MacosX Mail.app)
    (2) Usually they are more intrusive - nowadays people carry cell phones around and when you are bugged by SMS spam TOGETHER with important SMS.. it's friggin' bad...
    (3) They know where you read it... the positioning system of the GPS/w-cdma networks allow them to track your place...

    now what? right - do it with legislation.