What is a cell phone spammer?

Cell phone spammers are among many recent high-tech menaces. Cell
phone spam resembles email spam or fax spam: unsolicited
advertisements arrive on your cell phone as text messages. Like fax
spam, cell phone spam has an extra annoyance factor, since you may end
up paying for the unwanted ads. It's bad enough to be pestered or
offended, but it's worse when you're charged for the privilege.

"Text messaging, the latest craze among cell phone users has hit a
snag. It is a convenient way to send e-mail directly to a cell phone -
but some subscribers are getting messages from porn sites...

You knew it wouldn't take long for the same dirty spammers that attack
your e-mail account to send that same junk to your cell phone. That is
exactly what is happening with text messaging; only you are left
footing the bill.

Everyday people who subscribe to text messaging on their cell phones
are finding ads for porn sites, sexual aids and fad diets that used to
show up in their e-mail. According to Louis Mastria of the Direct
Marketing Association, legitimate marketers want the spammers to stop.
He points out, you could end up getting charged for text messages you
don't want.

Mastria says, 'It is actually not legal. You're not supposed to send
any messages to any devices where the consumer gets billed for the
call.'

One wireless company has filed suit against spammers who recently sent
sexually explicit messages to its users.

But advertising experts like Trevor Hughes say spammers are a shadowy
group and catching them is tricky. Hughes says, 'Either the business
has moved on or the business never existed, or it was a scam operation
to begin with.'

So how do the spammers get your number in the first place? 

Experts believe they use computers to search out phone numbers capable
of receiving text messages."

KABC-TV: Cell Phone Spam
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/features/CONSUMER/101503_fs_cell_phone_spam.html

Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: "cell phone spam OR spammers"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22cell+phone+spam+OR+spammers

I find it strangely ironic that devices such as computers and cell
phones, which can make our lives so much easier, come with a dark side
(spam, viruses, spyware, etc.), almost as if some cosmic law has
decreed that we have to pay for our ease and convenience by accepting
a certain amount of nuisance and torment.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

Thanks Pink.  They are cyber-pirates.

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