Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Reuters: "Mobile Phone Spam Is Here To Stay"
Posted by Raphael Salgado in "ARTICLE" @ 03:00 PM
"Fumi Ishii has changed her mobile phone e-mail address several times and once spent a month tracking down her tormentor, but the spam keeps coming. "I found the sender's contact information after a lot of research, and I called them up and complained," said the 57-year old print firm owner. "They started up again, but this time I can't figure out where it's coming from." Spam, or electronic junk mail, typically offering dating services, pornography and get-rich schemes, has moved beyond traditional e-mail and into text-messaging and mobile e-mail."
While our technology evolves to make cyberspace as intimate, accessible, and as portable as we can, we cannot forget the lesser evils such as spam that continues to evolve as well. As insult to injury, mobile spam can actually be very costly, whether in the form of an SMS or by additional bandwidth used in downloading these junky e-mails. Are you dealing with mobile spam already? Does anyone have ideas on how to stop the madness? :evil:
While our technology evolves to make cyberspace as intimate, accessible, and as portable as we can, we cannot forget the lesser evils such as spam that continues to evolve as well. As insult to injury, mobile spam can actually be very costly, whether in the form of an SMS or by additional bandwidth used in downloading these junky e-mails. Are you dealing with mobile spam already? Does anyone have ideas on how to stop the madness? :evil:
