Besides cellphone spam being annoying, it can also cripple your phone. There’s a text message spam going around that damages Siemens’ S46 cellphone, even if the message isn’t opened:
One AT&T Wireless subscriber, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the fateful short-text message landed in her in-box on Wednesday. She deleted it, believing it to be spam. Later she found a strange entry where addresses and telephone numbers are stored. She tried to delete that as well, but instead got a message that the phone’s address book had been corrupted. From that point on the “built-in address book was completely shot,” and the phone could no longer send or receive short text messages or e-mail, she said.
