Cellphone Companies Must Block Obvious Scam Texts, FCC Says

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Cellphone companies have to block robotext messages that are highly likely to be illegal under new FCC rules specifically targeting spam texts

Spam texts have risen and companies will have to block messages regulators say are likely to be illegal.U.S. regulators say scam textsUnder new rules adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission, mobile-service providers have to block robotext messages the agency says are

highly likely to be illegal. That includes texts from numbers that shouldn’t be sending messages, such as unused and invalid numbers, as well as those that government agencies identify as not for texting.

 

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you mean no more alerts from the CDC?

Does this include third party vendors too or at least limit the number of texts they can send as a reminder especially if you've already made the pick-up and they simply have a timed send message that isn't even local?

Well hell, how ever will I be notified of the suspension of my Amazon account every other day?

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