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Nov. 11, 2005 — The Chinese government is cracking down on what it calls the latest threat to the safety and security of its population: cell phone text messages.

According to Xinhua, China's official news agency, the Ministry of Public Security is carrying out this month a "nationwide campaign to clean up cell phone illegal short text messaging." The government is targeting the increasing number of mobile phone e-mails that fraudulently offer a wide variety of titillating goods — illegal items such as firearms, explosives, and narcotics; lottery winnings; pornography; and the "introduction of marital partners."

In other words, China's taking an aggressive bite into mobile spam.
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Read More / Source: ABC News