Ask HN: How can I stop getting spam SMS?

1 pointbillybob3 comments

I keep getting spam SMS messages. This drives me nuts, because 1) I'm being charged for those and 2) the carrier doesn't provide a spam filter or let me provide my own.

I'm pretty sure that those two things are related.

Does anybody know a solution for this, or do I just have to hope I can start a movement and yell loud enough to get them to fix it?

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That's what I wound up doing when it got really bad. I found the easiest way I could complain (I think a web form at the time) and sent them all the details each time.

Any results?

Oh yes! To be fair, they were really bad at the time, like 3~10 a day for a couple of months, I didn't have much choice to complain. It stopped within a week. Now, I think the only weirdness was around new years with the Android wrong-person text bug (whatever that was). My work phone I get maybe 2~3 per month, if that, but I don't even know who to gripe to on that one except resources at work, but it isn't so bad I don't mind so much.

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