FTC filed eight complaints in various U.S. courts against 29 defendants. FTC filed complaints in early March against eight companies, according to antispam vendor Cloudmark. Fraudulent messages told users they could get a free gift card for retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart and Target in exchange for people’s personal information. Spam still took the top spot for the most prevalent type of SMS spam for the first quarter of the year due to high volumes in January and February. The second most frequent type was payday loan scams, followed by bogus job listings, adult content.”]