10 proven ways to save your phone from SMS spam

If you get SMS ads from unknown businesses, but not share contact data for such purposes, it is spam. Often this can be scammers who are trying to access your data and money.

The website collected a few effective tips and techniques to protect you and your data from spammers and scammers.









Forward the spam message to the number 7726 is the international shortcode for fighting spam, by which operators create a unified database of spammers. Some operators instead 7726 use their own shortcodes.















These codes can be used on any mobile phones, even if we are talking about the old Nokia phone. Please contact your operator and verify that is not connected to any other mailing (sometimes even paid service).











For iPhone: open the spam message in the upper right corner, click on the option "Details", then on the icon with the letter "i" and scroll down to the option "Block caller".

For Android: open the spam message in the upper right corner click on the icon with the three dots, select People & Options ("People") and Block Phone Number ("Block [phone number]").

















Thanks to the app "Rosspan" you can send a complaint directly to the FAS and to protect themselves from spammers that are already in the database "Rossana". Download the app, after installation fill out the form and allow the app to process the data. Now any spam message, with your approval, will be transformed into a complaint which will be sent automatically to the FAS.

Alternatively, send a photo or screen shot of promotional SMS on report@rosspam.org and follow the instructions in the response letter.

















NumBuster! eliminates and block the number of scammers and spammers, relying on its own base. Parses numbers in the messages, identifying the threat. If you receive a call from a suspicious number, the application will warn that this subscriber has complained about other users.

TextBlocker allows you to create your list of trusted contacts and block SMS from suspicious numbers. Automatically removes from the applications folder after 45 days.

SMS Blocker blocks messages from spammers by numbers and key words, collecting SMS in a separate folder. In the paid version has the ability to block SMS from all unknown numbers and immediately to remove them.

• If you got a TEXT from an unknown number, don't reply to it, do not click on links in the message or save an attached file.
• Banks, companies and organizations never use SMS to get access to your data: not asked to specify the password to the account, PIN codes or credit card information.
• Payment terminals often steal the number to which the transfer of funds for direct-mail advertising. Carefully read the fine print under the buttons "Next".
• Posting your number on forums, websites and social networks, be prepared for the fact that the bots will automatically recognize it and add to the database for spammers.
• Disable auto saving media files in Viber, WhatsApp and other messengers.

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See also
How to know what you watch via a smartphone
How to protect elderly parents from scams
How to find someone using the Internet?


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