Forty-three percent of all mobile phone text messages are now spam _ up from just 18 percent a year ago, according to Wireless Service Corp., a Washington-based company that runs text messages networks for roughly 30 cell phone carriers.
Like unsolicited junk e-mails that can clog home and work computers, mobile spammers cast out thousands of text messages in attempts to direct users to a site or to make an expensive phone call. Consumers, many of them paying a premium for the privilege of...
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