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I've not had a single SMS/messaging spam message in the last decade. In the UK if that makes a difference, maybe we have effective laws around it? Not looked into it.

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I’m also in the UK and received two SMS spam messages last month, which wasn’t particularly out of the ordinary. Both were low effort fishing attempts along the lines of “You have been sent a package that requires the payment of customs fees. Please provide your account information at http://customs.uk.gov.scam.example.xn--horse-sw3b

I probably get more of those now than the “we’ve heard that you’ve been in an auto accident that wasn’t your fault” robocalls.

I'm in Singapore and when I read this I realised that it's been a long time since I received an SMS spam message. It must be at least 2 years. And even then they were quite rare (one ever few months maybe?).

I wonder what different telcos does differently, because I have heard about some countries where you're getting flooder by these things.

In the last 6 months SMS spam has increased a lot for me. A lot of it are random messages like "I'm sorry but please don't message me again!" or "Hey, I really had a great time last night, let's make plans for next weekend!" that basically is reply-bait.

Same here and I've used and shared the same number for at least 20 years. I had no idea SMS spam was an issue until I read this thread

It’s not going to be uniform for everyone. The primary number I’ve used for ages doesn’t get SMS spam at all. A secondary number which probably got recycled from someone else receives multiple spam messages every single day.

Here in Australia I am still getting a few a week.

And we have a loophole that allows politicians to legally spam whenever they want.

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