Reports have indicated that the new android phone or the latest model of the smart phone may be vulnerable to smishing or hacking of smart phones, the latest entry in cyber crime. Smishing is nothing but the mobile phone variant of a phishing attack, usually seen through the e-mails on your computers. Experts believe that it is very easy to access not only phone number, but everything that is saved in the phone through smishing.

Gaurav Kanwal, Country Sales Manager, India & SAARC, Symantec, has been quoted in the media that a sample study revealed that 17 per cent of total mobile phone users are victims of mobile smishing, and most of them had occurred due to downloading of applications.