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Stories about: mobile spam

People's Lives Held for Ransom via SMS The Australian Communications and Media Authority has issued warnings to the general public after it received reports of death threats being made via mobile phone text messages. The bogus SMSes inform people that they are about to be killed if they do not contact an e-mail address and follow instructions. Australian... 3 July 2009 05:38 GMT AT&T Floods Users with American Idol Texting Spam While the American Idol TV show tops the charts in the United States, a spam campaign AT&T’s cellphone customers have received is subject to controversy this week. The carrier, which is American Idol’s telecom sponsor, is reported to have sent a significant number of adverts to its mobile users. Accordin... 17 January 2009 05:23 GMT