A couple of spam text messages hit my iPhone recently. So, I tweeted a question to AT&T Wireless's Customer Care Twitter account to learn what advice they might offer. You can see the response in the screenshot above. AT&T's advice to use the word STOP to block messages is, it turns out, specifically to deal with messages from Short Code numbers. However, AT&T provides ways to deal with other kind of text message spam on this web support page.


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