Saturday, July 16, 2011

Mobile World Sparks Cell Phone Spam Onslaught

With more than half the world's population now using mobile communication devices, cell phone spam is on the rise -- despite government clampdown efforts.

Mobile phone spam, also known as m-spam, can arrive in two forms -- either as an email or as a text or SMS message (which some clever person labeled spaSMS).

In most cases it's illegal, but what's really infuriating is that unless you have an unlimited text plan with your cell phone service provider, you end up actually paying for this garbage.

Click here to read the full article.


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