Sophos have cautioned against the increasing pest of spam distributed to cellphones by two people from Florida who have been accused of flooding mobile phones with spam messages advertising time shares. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has litigated against Neela Pundit and Charles Rossop for distributing 5 million malicious text messages to mobile phone holders throughout the nation. The abrupt hurting came to light when over 200 consumers started complaining in Illinois alone after getting the ads in October and November 2006, which read:
We have someone interested in buying or renting your Time Share, and encouraged recipients to visit two Internet websites.
Mobile phone spam is not only an annoyance; it can possibly hit the users in their pocket, also. Frequently cell phone spam messages could tell users simply give a call back at a so and so number, just for the receiver to discover they are inadvertently making a premium rate call. Though it will take time for SMS text spam to be like as big a trouble as usual email spam. However since the reports of SMS text spam targeting cell phone users are rising day by day. Mobile users are expected to report SMS abuse to their phone network suppliers and think cautiously prior to act upon unsolicited text messages
