Mobile Phone Spam is Here to Stay

Were you really this naive? Were you one of the few that held out hopes that mobile spam would one day go the way of the doe-doe-bird? Sorry Charlie, it’s not going to happen. Based on my intel, this pain is here to stay.

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.

“(Mobile phones are) a device that’s synonymous with the person as opposed to fixed-line phones,” said Nick Ingelbrecht, an analyst for research firm Gartner. “It’s inevitable that they’re going to exploit that.” Source: ExtremeTech