Editing Text messaging (section)

=== Spam ===
{{Further|Mobile phone spam}}
In 2002, an increasing trend towards [[Mobile phone spam|spamming]] mobile phone users through SMS prompted cellular-service carriers to take steps against the practice, before it became a widespread problem. No major spamming incidents involving SMS had been reported {{As of|2007|alt=as of March 2007}}, but the existence of mobile phone spam<ref name="3750 FREEMSG Scam">{{cite web |url=http://www.kathirvel.com/mobile-text-scam-claim-3750-for-the-accident-you-had/ |title=Accident Claim Text Scam |publisher=Kathirvel.com |date=7 July 2010 |access-date=29 March 2012 |archive-date=5 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505082249/http://www.kathirvel.com/mobile-text-scam-claim-3750-for-the-accident-you-had/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> has been noted by industry watchdogs including ''[[Consumer Reports]]'' magazine and the Utility Consumers' Action Network ([http://www.ucan.org/ UCAN]). In 2005, UCAN brought a case against Sprint for spamming its customers and charging $0.10 per text message.<ref name="Sprint spam">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/business/21cells.html?ei=5090&en=90fb11e106a62920&ex=1279598400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print |title=Sprint and Cingular Named in Complaints |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 July 2005}}</ref> The case was settled in 2006 with Sprint agreeing not to send customers Sprint advertisements via SMS.<ref name="Sprint spam result">{{cite web|url=http://www.ucan.org/telecommunications/wireless/ucan_sprint_cell_phone_spam_decision_by_cpuc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718173609/http://www.ucan.org/telecommunications/wireless/ucan_sprint_cell_phone_spam_decision_by_cpuc|archive-date=18 July 2007 |url-status=dead |title=UCAN report on Sprint SPAM SMS settlement |website=Utility Consumers' Action Network |date=5 October 2006 |access-date=29 March 2012}}</ref> SMS expert Acision (formerly LogicaCMG Telecoms) reported a new type of SMS malice at the end of 2006, noting the first instances of SMiShing (a cousin to e-mail [[phishing]] scams). In SMiShing, users receive SMS messages posing to be from a company, enticing users to phone premium-rate numbers or reply with personal information. Similar concerns were reported by PhonepayPlus, a [[Consumer protection in the United Kingdom|consumer watchdog]] in the United Kingdom, in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17489393 |title=Warning over 'scam' that charges users to receive texts |work=bbc.co.uk|date=28 March 2012 |access-date=29 September 2014}}</ref>