Text bombing can be performed for several reasons as follows: Whereas Danielle had no idea from where the messages came from, and circumstantially, they came from only one girl. There were 150 different messages sent using text bombing, signifying that they came from Danielle’s different classmates. According to this news in KSLA News, 15-year old Danielle Cox attempted suicide after receiving constant destructive text messages compelling her to end her life. There are severe negative effects caused by text bombing that has also led people to suicide. Because if the receiver has any urgent operations of performing on his/her cell phone, he/she won’t be able to maneuver it due to the SMS bomb messages. The text bombing messages are easy to trigger, but it’s really tough to convince the sender about not to send them. Text bombing can be manually done by searching online for a few software that allows setting up an SMS bomb attack and runs it automatically. It is similar to DOS (Denial of Service) attack on websites where multiple computers try to login to the same website at a time making the computer servers hosting the website unable to tackle with the respondent requests.
Text bombing is sending a series of repetitive text messages to a cell phone so that the phone becomes almost inoperative during the attack.
