----- Original Message ----- > On 07/25/13 17:21, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > Oh yeah. More good news. > > > > My wife has started receiving SMS spam. It comes from a random > > 5-digit number, and in the message body, it says my name. Like: > > > > Check this out! > > http://blah/blah/blah > > If this is on AT&T, they have a number to forward spam SMS messages > to. > SPAM (7726) > > You will get a response asking to send the phone number that sent the > message. That will allow them to trace it. >
Should work on any of the major carriers....I was doing that a lot for a while with my T-Mobile phone. And, I think I've done it a few times with my verizon phone (which is a prepaid, so it costs me to get the spam and costs me to forward it, etc....) Alternatively there's a FCC form you can fill out - http://www.fcc.gov/complaints I think the relevant complaint type / categories are: "Wireless Telephone" -> "Telemarketing calls ... unsolicited commercial emails received on a wireless phone" "Telemarketing, ... " -> "Live telemarketing calls ... advertising text messages, unsolicited commercial emails ... received on a wireless phone" Though there's also: "Broadband and VOIP" -> "Unsolicited commercial emails received on a wireless phone" Not sure if they all lead to the same form or not....The couple of times I've done it....I had used the "advertising text messages" one... Though I have gotten SMS spam from an email address. And, then there's the ability to send SMS (spam) to a voice phone... that happened to me once. L _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
