07-13-2020, 05:04 PM
Followup to this post: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,2499823,2499823#msg-2499823
... unfortunately, the spam hasn't stopped ... if anything, it's now gotten a little worse. I've spoken with AT&T and they say they're going to "escalate" the issue, but of course this being AT&T, that probably means nothing. (According to the tech I spoke with, he claimed that the problem is that someone else's phone has been compromised with a virus or program that is sending out the spam to the contacts, but I don't know how much I believe that.)
So far, the best solution I've found is SMS Spam Filter, which allows you to filter out texts on the basis of a word or symbol contained in the text itself. The message gets filtered into the "Unknown and Junk" tab on Messages. The problem with this is that these messages still show up in terms of the icon on the home screen, so you have to read or delete them to get rid of it.
AT&T used to have a great SMS filter on the front end, accessible to users with a website, but they now seem to have taken that away.
If anyone has any other ideas (short of changing my number, which I'd rather not do for a variety of reasons), let me know...
Edit: one more thing I should have mentioned -- I've enabled the "Filter Unknown Senders" option in Settings > Messages > Unknown & Spam, and that hasn't apparently done anything.
... unfortunately, the spam hasn't stopped ... if anything, it's now gotten a little worse. I've spoken with AT&T and they say they're going to "escalate" the issue, but of course this being AT&T, that probably means nothing. (According to the tech I spoke with, he claimed that the problem is that someone else's phone has been compromised with a virus or program that is sending out the spam to the contacts, but I don't know how much I believe that.)
So far, the best solution I've found is SMS Spam Filter, which allows you to filter out texts on the basis of a word or symbol contained in the text itself. The message gets filtered into the "Unknown and Junk" tab on Messages. The problem with this is that these messages still show up in terms of the icon on the home screen, so you have to read or delete them to get rid of it.
AT&T used to have a great SMS filter on the front end, accessible to users with a website, but they now seem to have taken that away.
If anyone has any other ideas (short of changing my number, which I'd rather not do for a variety of reasons), let me know...
Edit: one more thing I should have mentioned -- I've enabled the "Filter Unknown Senders" option in Settings > Messages > Unknown & Spam, and that hasn't apparently done anything.
