This kind of crap just infuriates me. But I'm happy to see it was shut down within days.
Far more annoying than emails, the steady stream of scam text messages is a real issue, but one that should be extremely simple to stop at the cell phone provider level. It would take a 12 y/o about 5 minutes to create a filter that would block 99% of it, and yet the CRTC hasn't forced them to do it yet.