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Re Scam Texts

Spiritmale1 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:17:26 GMT

I have noticed that I am regularly getting scam texts. I was wondering what Telus/CRTC is doing to prevent this. Thank you.

Re: Re Scam Texts

HALIMACS — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:24:42 GMT

@Spiritmale1

There is absolutely nothing any regulatory body can do about scam texts.

The only thing you can do is not, ever, respond to them or click on any links within them.

Some people recommend changing your number, which you can do up to four times per cycle here, however they'll eventually get access to your new number and start doing it all over again.

One of the causes of this is entering your phone number on web pages for this or that. If you tend to do that, revisit that.

Re: Re Scam Texts

Phil_Adelphus — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:33:28 GMT

@Spiritmale1 You can forward the scam/spam texts to 7726, see

https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/The-Lounge/Blog-Post-The-More-You-Know-Combating-Spam-Texts-with-Public/td-p/1044483