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Wireless Spam Proliferates

Mobile phone users have been unpleasantly surprised by the newest spam technique: The sending of unsolicited commercial text messages directly to users� phones.

Unsolicited Text Messages Irk Many Cellphone Users, Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2001 (subscription required).