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The Federal Communications Commission is cracking down on spammy text messages following a surge of consumer complaints

The new rules require phone providers to block text messages from suspicious sources including phone numbers that appear to be “invalid, unallocated, or unused.” Carriers will also have to block text messages coming from phone numbers that claim not to ever send text messages, or that the government has identified as numbers not used for texting, the FCC said.

The FCC is mulling additional regulations that could, among other things, apply Do Not Call registry protections to text messages for the first time. The FCC said it is also considering making it harder for marketers to use a single consumer consent to flood that user with calls and text messages from multiple sources and numbers.

 

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Spam call centers should be labeled as terrorist organizations. Then located and cruise missiles launched.

There should be classes for Spammers to teach them to spell, grammar, be coherent, and have better scams.

Thank God CNN is on top of the text spam scandals instead of all that soft news about “bank failures” and the “looming destruction of the economy”.

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