Through eight lawsuits filed in four different U.S. District Courts, the Federal Trade Commission has put the regulatory smackdown on 29 alleged text spammers believed to have blasted out more than 180 million unwanted text messages to consumers. [More]
FTC Goes After Spammers Responsible For 180 Million “Free Gift Card” Text Messages
By March 7, 2013
Lawsuit Seeks $1 Billion From Florida Text Spammers
By June 12, 2012
Thousands of people in Florida have apparently been plagued with unwanted text messages for a scrap metal business looking to buy junk cars. Now on lawyer says he’s found the people responsible for the text spam — and that they owe at least $1 billion in fines. [More]
4.5 Billion Spam Texts Sent To U.S. Cellphones Last Year
By 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]
