Feds crack down on text-messaging spammers[ Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:30:37 GMT ]The Federal Trade Commission has gone to court to stop companies from allegedly bombarding cell phone users with hundreds of millions of unwanted text messages that promised “free” gift cards. The FTC complaints, filed in courtrooms around the U.S., charge 29 defendants with sending more than 180 million of these spam texts.