Verizon fights back against text message spam

We're working on some catchy slang term for it, but Verizon Wireless has reportedly filed a bunch of lawsuits against text message spammers who have sent nearly five million pieces of unwanted messages to their subscribers'
cellphones since March 4th. Verizon says they're already blocking 50,000 text spams a day (which could explain why occasionally even legit messages end up disappearing), and South Korea text message spam accounts for more than 10% of all texts sent there. Even with lawsuits this is probably only going to get worse and worse everywhere. Besides, it's bad enough just getting regular spam, but most cellphone subscribers get charged for every text they receive, so getting hit by text spam could end up potentially costing you a lot of money.

[Via Technology Review]