The scourge of spam has spread to mobile phones, with Britons being bombarded by more than one million unwanted text messages every day. A report from uSwitch.com, the consumer website, also showed that security groups are losing their battle with the criminal gangs behind conventional e-mail spam.

Nearly 82 million junk electronic messages – ranging from offers of counterfeit Viagra to “pump and dump” scams for penny shares – are getting through filters daily. The figure, equating to nearly 1,000 spam e-mails a second, is up 20 per cent from last year. The appearance of mobile phone spam follows a warning from McAfee, the security group, that junk mail sent to mobile handsets is set to “explode” as hackers target new web-enabled smartphones. Spam menace spreads to mobile phones - Times Online

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