The Black Art of Spamming Mobile Phones

This page discusses spammers tactics for spamming mobile phones.

It specifically goes into detail about the differences between SMS spam and Email spam. Typically spam sent to cell phones is not via traditional email, but text messaging.

This article does not provide instructions on how to spam.

Different sets of legal regulations impact email spam and cell-phone spam. Unfortunately, some cell providers literally charge customers per message received. This makes the cost of cell-spam directly monetary. In the worst case scenario, a customer could get billed hundreds of dollars for advertisements they would rather have not received.

So far, an effective spam stopper does not exist for mobile solutions. In theory, similar technology could be deployed. Concepts such as content filtering and blacklists of known spam sources should be directly translatable to wireless telephony use.

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