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How can I block ALL text messages sent from EMAIL ADDRESSES?
I am receiving text messages from email addresses, How can I block them?
Hmmm, there's a few different ways these emails could be coming in, so I think we should try ruling some out. They could be going to [Your Phone Number]@tmomail.net, so let's turn that off. Could you change your Message Blocking settings on My T-Mobile so they Bloqueo de email TMOmail.net? That will help us isolate where they're coming from.
Astropartigirl wrote:Hey all, I've been having the exact same problem and it's been happening like every day. Here's what I did:
I called T-Mobile 611, told them I've been getting spam/phishing texts from email addresses continuously, and asked to have email addresses blocked from texting me. They will ask you to first, forward the text message content (long-press a corner of that text bubble far away from the link, and options should show up; one is "forward"). Forward to 7726.
The person should then move onto blocking texts from short codes that aren't recognized. Apparently, email addresses still use short codes to send mass texts to people, so this is supposed to block those too.
Whether it actually worked or not, I guess I'll need to wait and see. But apparently this should solve the problem. I didn't get a clear response to why T-Mobile doesn't offer their customers the option to block emails from texting like Sprint does, but (hopefully) this issue has been addressed. If it does not work and I still get texts from emails, I'll update here. I hope it works for you all as well, if you try!
Here's my update: that didn't work. I still got two yesterday. So I guess we're screwed until T-Mobile decides to take this seriously. 😡
