My most recent spam texts don't use STOP, for obvious reasons. They just use random and obscure words now. You know what stops their messages without garnering more? Blocking them.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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This doesn't make sense. If you send STOP to a spammer they will know that your number is active and hit you harder.
"Block and report as spam" is enough
Is it clever enough to not send STOP to engagement fishing spam? Like the ones that use the STOP message to add you to a list of people who actually read the thing and then you're spammed a load more for months?
I have been receiving so much spam the last 9 months. At first, I attributed it to the election, but it has actually escalated since December. I recieve 20+ blocked calls a day at this point. They sometimes use one or two new numbers in a day, so I have to add those to the list. Before I had enough of the numbers blocked, my phone was going off incessantly. Idk were my number appeared to cause this, but I've had to shut off my voicemail and block all texts from numbers not already saved on my phone. I think I might just change my number at this point, it might actually be more convenient.
I use an app called SpamBlocker from fdroid. It supports regex filters and blocking non-contacts and is super comprehensive in this regard.
I've been using Blacklist for probably 10 years, recently switched to SpamBlocker. Wow, what a complex and flexible app.
I get no messages or calls I don't want.
Same. It stopped most of my spam.
I'll check it out, thank you. Sounds simpler than changing my number after 20 years.