Ask HN: increased iMessage spam lately?

Has anyone else been experiencing a huge uptick in iMessage spam/scam over the last few weeks?

I've been an iPhone user for ~10 years. At most, I would get maybe 5 iMessage spams/scam text year year. I'm now getting 5 per day.

I don't use PayPal, but most of the text are PayPal related iMessage scams/spam.