This one hurts a little. We've all gotten scammy-looking toll payment texts. Most of the time, they're fakes. But one California driver found out the hard way that ignoring them isn'…
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Wesley Hilliard at Apple Insider covers a story that has certain political fundraising groups up in arms : Apple's upcoming iOS 26 release will start automatically sorting m…
Way back in 2020, I shared how you can utilize various cellular provider gateways to send an email to a certain address and have it land as a text message on a mobile device. To…
What's a smish? This is a smish , phishing via text messages. They're coming fast and furiously lately, the latest template seems to be all about fake toll road fines. Tr…
In certain email clients and webmail providers, like Gmail, the mailbox provider utilizes the list-unsubscribe header to offer up an in-app "unsubscribe" button that s…
This isn't anything TOO earth shattering, but it was a nice collection of tips all in once place, so I thought it would be a good thing to share. (And I'm in Detroit toda…
You know how you can send an email message to a certain address, and it'll be converted into a text message and sent to a certain cell phone? There's a whole guide on ho…
Are political messages exempt from the requirements of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act? As the FCC explains , while campaigns are exempt from the "do not call" li…
Mobile providers have been suggesting this for a while now (here's me talking about Verizon and this service apparently goes back ten years ) -- report that SMS spam so tha…
I think Verizon Wireless has supported reporting SMS spam to them via the 7726 (SPAM) SMS number for a while now. I'm not really sure when that started, but very recently, Ve…
Mike Robuck of Mobile World Live reports on a new SMS and call spam protection option for Verizon Wireless users here in the US: an updated free Call Filter app . I just download…
I'm not sure how the website " 20somethingfinance.com " ended up being a good resource for this, but that's where I found the most information when I started do…
Sometimes those of us with a quite-possibly-myopic worldview might assume that outside of North America and Europe, spam regulation doesn't exist. Well, here's an example…
SMS (text messaging) spam is frustrating, and blatantly illegal. Sadly, it's not always easily prosecuted, as the bad actors engaging in this practice often hide behind redir…
That we can now report SMS spam to various wireless carriers is a good thing, but the process is still overly complicated and I'm doubtful that enough people take the time t…
Hey, this is cool: According to Engadget , Cloudmark seems to be working on the next frontier of spam filtering: SMS spam. Give it a few years, and something like this will be ba…
Consumerist has the story. Some random (but large) number of AT&T subscribers got SMS-spammed by their cell provider. Lame. The NY Times quotes Mark Siegel, a spokesman for…
As I said to Ken Magill for his recent article regarding Truthout : From what I know of how spam blocking works, and how ISPs make the determination regarding what mail to block,…
