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App for blocking spam texts?

Posted on 1/30/22 at 8:43 am
Posted by OhFace55
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2007
7049 posts
Posted on 1/30/22 at 8:43 am
I'm receiving an asinine amount of spam texts lately. Is there an app that is proficient at blocking them? (iphone)
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Posted on 1/30/22 at 9:51 am to
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Posted on 1/30/22 at 10:00 am to
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Posted on 1/30/22 at 10:48 am to
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Posted by notsince98
KC, MO
Member since Oct 2012
20020 posts
Posted on 1/30/22 at 11:13 am to
check with your phone service provider. At&t has a call protect app, for example, that will filter spam calls and texts. I would guess all of the phone providers have similar apps.
Posted by BobMayonnaise
Memphis
Member since Feb 2009
1432 posts
Posted on 1/30/22 at 11:19 pm to
What about when the texts come from email addresses? How can that be blocked?
Posted by Flipflopfly
Slidell
Member since Jul 2011
183 posts
Posted on 2/1/22 at 12:01 pm to
Just called AT&T this morning as I was getting 20 texts a day from email addresses. They put a block on my account to not receive them anymore
Posted by Large Farva
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2013
8584 posts
Posted on 2/1/22 at 1:20 pm to
My fiance is getting a ton of texts from random numbers and email addresses and also getting a ton of spam calls. She said she's about to change her number because it is getting way out of control. I'll tell her to call AT&T before changing her number.
Posted by Flipflopfly
Slidell
Member since Jul 2011
183 posts
Posted on 2/2/22 at 6:12 pm to
Happy to report NO spam texts since calling AT&T yesterday!
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
156501 posts
Posted on 2/2/22 at 6:43 pm to
not even funny but it was. Older people I won't say who fall for every con text.


the texts will look like this

hi sam hill, tractor supply wants you to apply for work, click here

hi sam hill you won a $800 gift card click here

and Sam (not his real name) will say hey did you know tractor supply wants me to work for them and I won a free gift card?
This post was edited on 2/2/22 at 6:44 pm
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
156501 posts
Posted on 2/2/22 at 6:44 pm to
so you called them and they turned them off NO WAY.

Do TELL MOTHA FRICKER DO TELL
Posted by Flipflopfly
Slidell
Member since Jul 2011
183 posts
Posted on 2/3/22 at 8:47 am to
So I was getting at least 20 spam texts a day, these texts would have like 20 people on there and then people would reply STOP, BLOCK AND REPORT, and then it would just go on and on for days on end.

Called AT&T, spoke to a nice English speaking woman and she said she had to put the block in on her end, took 2 minutes, BAM, no more spam texts!
Posted by greygoose
Member since Aug 2013
12694 posts
Posted on 2/3/22 at 9:22 am to
I have never received a legitimate text from an email source. Gotta wonder why the carriers even allow this in the first place.

The new spam text of the future is the ones that can't be blocked. Got one the other day. Flash SMS. Same tech used for Amber alerts and such. Now the spammers are starting to use it. Can't disable it, carrier can't/won't block them. Even you Do Not Disturb feature is ignored when receiving those.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
156501 posts
Posted on 2/6/22 at 12:30 pm to
Free robo spam call blocker apps for android & iphone

LINK

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This post was edited on 2/6/22 at 12:31 pm
Posted by broadhead
Member since Oct 2014
2384 posts
Posted on 2/6/22 at 2:36 pm to
IPhone - latest software - settings, messages, filter unknown senders.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
14473 posts
Posted on 2/6/22 at 3:54 pm to
quote:

IPhone - latest software - settings, messages, filter unknown senders.

And how do I get my iPhone to actually do that?
Posted by TigerLord2020
Member since May 2020
859 posts
Posted on 2/6/22 at 5:22 pm to
quote:

My fiance is getting a ton of texts from random numbers


Random to you buddy…..
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