{"id":4214,"date":"2012-04-26T17:33:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:28:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:28:34","slug":"how-to-report-spam-text-messages-to-att-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=4214","title":{"rendered":"How to report spam text messages to AT&T Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short answer: forward the message to 7726 (SPAM) then reply back with the number it originated from.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The business-minded folks over at AT&T have yet again gone out of their way to try and squeeze extra money out of their “already-paying-near-cartel-prices” customers. I knew they were greedy but the last straw was when I realized they charge extra for the “privilege” of tethering an internet connection (wired or wireless) through your mobile device in addition to<\/em> the cost for the additional data. Really? My data allotment is data no matter how it goes through my devices, why do they get to charge for a software feature<\/em> of my wireless phone?<\/p>\n

Then… then today I received a terribly annoying spam text message:<\/p>\n

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After searching DuckDuckGo and Google, AT&T’s own customer forums come up (with people helping each other out), after their official FAQ page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thus, if I were to rely entirely on AT&T through its official support channels I would be greeted with a lengthy explanation as to what spam messages are, what the sources may be, and how I can prevent them:<\/p>\n

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Click to view full size screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n

The best part: it dedicates much of the page to terrible suggestions (send “STOP” back to a spammer?) and then (for wireless number text messages) they suggest you pay for “AT&T Smart Limits”<\/strong> which is a $4.99 \/ month package to block specific numbers before<\/strong> mentioning it has a responsible method to report spam.<\/p>\n

So, if I’m a typical user I skim the page, see a solution (oh, set up “Limits” and add the number, great!), stop reading and now AT&T takes more of my money. At least, I’m sure that’s the hope based on the way this helpful page is designed. It doesn’t seem like AT&T is dedicated to reducing spam, it appears to be in a conflict of interest: it’s in their best interest for more people to receive unwanted spam messages in order to continue promoting an additional paid service.<\/p>\n

Disgraceful.<\/p>\n

I’ll be switching to Verizon Wireless<\/a> once my contract is up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Short answer: forward the message to 7726 (SPAM) then reply back with the number it originated from. The business-minded folks over at AT&T have yet again gone out of their way to try and squeeze extra money out of their “already-paying-near-cartel-prices” customers. I knew they were greedy but the last straw was when I realized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,7],"tags":[445,446],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-gadgets","tag-att","tag-verizon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}