Tuesday, 3. February 2004

How Spammers Are Targeting Mobile Phones in Asia


If you thought your spam problems couldn't get any worse, check your mobile phone.

Cellphones are becoming the latest target of electronic junk mail, with a growing number of marketers using text messages to target subscribers in Asia.

Mobile phone spam has yet to approach anything like the volume of the e-mail variety, but the problem is growing in a region where the average user sends as many as 10 SMS (short message service) messages a day.

¬> reuters

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