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4.5 Billion Spam Texts Sent To U.S. Cellphones Last Year

4.5 Billion Spam Texts Sent To U.S. Cellphones Last Year

By Chris Morran April 30, 2012

If you think you’ve seen an uptick in the number of spam texts showing up on your wireless phone in recent months, you’re not crazy. A new report claims that the number of those unwanted messages jumped 45% last year, totaling 4.5 billion texts in the U.S. alone. [More]

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