July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Veli-Pekka Kaipainen needed cash in a hurry to pay off gambling debts. So he started texting. The Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine driver used his mobile phone to contact Finland's text-message lenders. The only catch was he had ...

Washington Post - But unlike junk e-mail that can be deleted with the click of a button, text-message spam costs money for the person who receives it and chips away at the mobile phone's aura of privacy.