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Andy Meek
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The SMS messages come with increasing regularity, almost daily now. The Apple Messages app on my iPhone stays loaded up with text messages from Amazon, generally informing me that I’m a winner in the day’s product raffle. All I have to do is click a link within the text message -- a message, by the way, whose sketchiness is so embarrassingly obvious, down to the fact that they almost always mention a name other than my own (“Tara” being the supposed recipient of the latest dodgy missive). And the spammers couldn’t even bother to pretend I’d won Apple AirPods, instead of EarPods, like the most recent message says.
There was a time I could mark these messages as “Junk” within my iPhone’s Messages app, but I’m no longer presented with that option. Just a simple delete or block is the best I can do, with the latter being practically useless since the messages come from a different phone number every time. I’m far from alone in this problem -- this Amazon link takes you to a question and answer page within Amazon.com where you’ll find a litany of customer complaints exactly like mine, from people likewise being spammed with these text messages. All of which is starting to make me suspect: Because robocalls got so pervasive in recent years, to the point that many of us stopped answering unknown calls altogether, it’s starting to feel like those spammers adjusted their tactics to reach us by text message now.
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This is the reason I rarely open Apple’s Messages app anymore originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 17:46:03 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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