Debt collectors pay to send you SMS messages, around $.003-$.01 it doesn’t sound like alot but trust me it adds up. They pay the same rate for incoming SMS and even more for MMS. So this holiday season, instead of blocking why not sign their numbers up for every spam SMS under the sun?
Happy Holidays!
If everyone does this, it eventually won’t work since once you opt out of most of these, they require you to manually opt back in before sending you more texts. Also, many of those automated SMS messages don’t recognize VoIP as valid to receive SMS which is probably what most of these call centers are using. I encounter that issue with my Google Voice number not being recognized because I try to use it for spam like this and often am told that it’s not a valid phone number.
you can almost always opt back with a “Resume” keyword. More likely they are cycling numbers and or license keys so your “opt in” never lasts.
Aggregators and Carriers will block Voip numbers for “spam” but my theory is because the messages don’t go over their standard A2P SMS routes they purposely block them to steer consumers towards their own products. The industry is trying very hard to kill voip texting.