Recently, the Kansas City Star reported that spammers are targeting more than just your email. The same e-spam messages that fill up your inbox can be sent to your mobile phone via text messaging. Many cell-phone plans charge for text messages that you send, as well as receive, meaning that consumers could be charged per pesky message about puppy scams, timeshares, and foreign lottery scams.

While many consumers are just now receiving this type of spam, it isn't a new issue. For years, MO AG Nixon has backed legislation that would protect mobile phones under the umbrella of the No Call List. Efforts to pass these bills have failed in MO, but AG Nixon will renew his efforts on this issue in the coming legislative session.

In the time being, some cell-phone companies have vowed to correct the matter by filtering as many of these messages as possible before they reach their customers' phone.