Spam texts, and how to avoid them Millions of spam texts are
sent each day. We have advice on what to do when you get one. If
you text, you've probably gotten text spam. Mine seem to come in
the middle of the night, or right before my alarm goes off. And
the number of these annoyances has tripled in the last year --
to 45 million text spams a day, according to the security firm
Cloudmark. Nilesh Bhandari is a researcher at Cisco Security. He
says one reason for the increase, “more and more people are
checking text messages on their phone, often unsure of where
these messages are coming from and responding to them quickly.”
We all just need to be more careful. “It was the same way in the
early days of email,” Bhandari says. “Over time the same sort of
trends which causes now folks to be very cautious about email if
they don't know who the sender is, I think we're going to see a
similar trend happen in the mobile phone environment as well.”
The scammers are following traffic, says Mary Landesman, a
researcher a