talksickwalkquick
talksickwalkquick OP t1_ja599qd wrote
Reply to comment by infinityandbeyond75 in Apple, please go to the table with google and come up with something better that everybody can use if iMessage is going to be off limits to non apple users. We need a solution to this. Apple and google have a responsibility to take action when they easily can. SMS needs to die. by talksickwalkquick
Yes I know about that. Which is part of why I posted this. The problem is getting really bad. I don’t share my phone number with anybody but friends and family. I even have a google voice number set up for situations where a company requires me to give a phone number. The messages are coming from addresses that look like an email address. It’s purposely very long title so you can’t see the full address. You could block each one or forward each spam message to SPAM (7726) on your phone but every time I get a message it’s from an entirely different source and blocking isn’t going to stop the problem.
talksickwalkquick OP t1_ja55elh wrote
Reply to Apple, please go to the table with google and come up with something better that everybody can use if iMessage is going to be off limits to non apple users. We need a solution to this. Apple and google have a responsibility to take action when they easily can. SMS needs to die. by talksickwalkquick
Maybe Tim Cook will listen when his phone number and his iPhone is getting calls and messages like this.
talksickwalkquick OP t1_ja59l1e wrote
Reply to comment by Tainted0401 in Apple, please go to the table with google and come up with something better that everybody can use if iMessage is going to be off limits to non apple users. We need a solution to this. Apple and google have a responsibility to take action when they easily can. SMS needs to die. by talksickwalkquick
Blocking and reporting as spam does nothing when every new message is from a different sender. Trust me I follow all of the tips you mentioned. I don’t just put my number anywhere I even have a google voice set up for anything that isn’t friends or family . Even my doctors office gets routed to google voice. I truly hope you won’t ever see for yourself what I’m talking about. This problem is getting bigger by the day. It’s become a multi billion dollar industry. Scamming people.