I hope someone monitors this, since the last entry is a year ago!
I have been getting text messages that are scams for 3-4 years now. It is due to identity theft, but they changed their game lately. They used to send emails and texts saying things like "hey look at this, I can't believe this happened to us! ", with a url to follow. They always address it to my son's name, including emails they would send to others, usually family, but a few ppl from my contacts.
For the last year or so, I've been getting texts addressed to my son, saying things like "we value your opinion, come and get a token of our gratitude ", with Google URL's to follow. I report it to EVERYONE* applicable, but the problem is it comes from a new number each time. Always the same format, but different phone numbers. I block every number, but as long as scammers can spoof numbers (and we can't!), what can I do short of changing my number. Believe me, I thought of that too.
Is there a way to block a text based on content?
*Places I report spam text to: reportphishing@apwg, reportphishing@apple.com (for apple users) reportphishing@tmobile.com, and SPAM (7726) for any carrier. If it supposedly comes from a company I know wants to be notified of these types of texts, I send it to them too. UPS, Amazon, Apple, are big ones. I have a bunch others, that if I get a lot of texts about, I'll call them and find out if they want to have a copy sent to them. After that, I report junk and delete. That's after I take a screenshot and go to the phone number to block it.
I know it seems excessive, but when you've had your identity stolen, I just don't take chances. My name and information has appeared in so many data breaches, that it just seems overwhelming. Ones I predicted years ago, and deleted my email, passwords were changed and I left the company are just now telling us that our information was compromised in a data breach. I told them over and over they had problems, but nobody wanted to listen.
Any ideas are appreciated!