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Re: How can I block ALL text messages sent from EMAIL ADDRESSES?
TCBelly wrote: brianFromNYC wrote: Can T-Mobile comment on the issue? We are all receiving spam from various email addresses coming straight to SMS. I can confirm that I have the "Block TMOmail.net email" and "Block Instant Message sent via SMS" and "Scam Block" all enabled. I am on iPhone and can confirm that the message is labeled "text message" coming straight to my phone number (not an email address containing my phone's number), and it is also not labeled as "iMessage". (It is 100% an SMS message,not iMessage.) I've forwarded every single one of these to 7726, and received confirmation. I have pretty consistently received these messages around every day or every other day since porting in to T-Mobile and never received these messages on Verizon, so the inability to block (or ability to receive) thesemessagesappears to be a T-Mobile issue. I came across this post idk if it's been referenced but it pretty much sums up the futility of T-Mobiles account settings on this issue and the tech peeps not having a solution despite it being months now. https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/spam-emails-being-sent-to-phone-number-attmomail-net-despite-the-feature-being-blocked-in-message-blocking-settings-34671?postid=127729#post127729 Yup, and further, the "solution" they have didn't fix anything. I got TWO of those email textsyesterday. TWO. ON A SATURDAY.1Ver1like0ComentariosRe: How can I block ALL text messages sent from EMAIL ADDRESSES?
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. 😡3Visto1like0ComentariosRe: How can I block ALL text messages sent from EMAIL ADDRESSES?
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!2Visto1like0Comentarios