Comments on: How to Block Text Message Spam on Your iPhone

By: Mr. Biker

Mr. Biker — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:50:31 +0000

BIG MISTAKE!!!

Both text and emails telling you to reply with a stop message are phishing scams. They just blanket send millions of numbers and if you reply, they know they got a good number. Then it gets sold. And sold and sold and sold and sold…

If there’s instructions on how to get off a list, ignore it. The only time it works is if you KNOW it’s legit. I’ve bought stuff from some companies that then send marketing crap once a day. You can safely click their “I want off your list” button.

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By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:05:31 +0000

Thanks so much for your opinion James, but how does that solve the problem?

By: game writer guy

game writer guy — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:33:26 +0000

Fantastic post — the spammers are just starting to get a hold of my number and I’m getting mortgage spam now.

And yes, as Geekzspot said, use the SPAM text address to report spam from other mobile numbers, cuz the ATT site only blocks spam from emailers. I really wish AT&T had a feature like Google Voice which allows you to block spam callers with a “this number is no longer in service” audio message.

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:10:43 +0000

That’s what you get when you think it’d be funny to text that number on those commercials. You realize you get charged for each text they send you?

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:08:57 +0000

You obviously signed up for something or someone who had your phone did. That’s not AT&T. That’s you being lonely one night or your friend playing a prank on you.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:13:07 +0000

I just got over 100 spam messages: They all had similar content as this.

FRM:WindowsLive MSG:[Hotmail] Aytun Erdogan:[BEST OF 80s] http://www.facebook.com/l/BAQCSmcTXAQD6oeEpt9pAqoT…

This is a new company phone that I had for 4 days and barely used. It shows the sending phone numbers as 1(410)000-001 all the way to 1(410)000-036.

I forwarded a few to ATT but they told me to reply with block so I replied to about 5 of them with Block. So far i haven’t received anymore.

By: mlee

mlee — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:10:03 +0000

The STOP reply worked for me. Thanks geekzspot!
The spam was coming from Wlamart MoneyCard.

By: bajacalla

bajacalla — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:05:04 +0000

I keep getting texts from something about “find out your secret crush!” – I just sent the msg to AT&T with the 5-digit #, and got back a message about “short codes” and the instruction to reply STOP to the sender. I’ll see if that works – it’s come from a couple different numbers, so I may still continue to receive this spam.

By: helper1

helper1 — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:24:50 +0000

it might be a message from AIM or another instant messenger. Try the following link http://mobile.aol.com/block-sms/