Inappropriate group text message and sexual harassment

Unfortunately when scammers - fraud - and sexual predators send out group text messages to 20 different phone numbers with a "link" and inappropriate language or sexting from an email address and they are in your contacts you cant report it - none of the email addresses they use are in my contacts nor is any of the phone numbers in the group they send this garbage out to - what then? I am sick and tired of receiving these message almost daily now - having to one by one block on my phone yet they continue to come through? Plus I report to appropriate Gmail or Outlook - but others come through with unknown carrier - or internet service provider name or known name. Over the last year it has went from once every now and then to now multiple times a week or even last weekend it was twice in one day.

Replying Stop - Remove - or I am reporting you only lets them know it is an active number and the crap continues. I see others in the group message (even after I have blocked all numbers in the 20 listed they sent it to) reply back to stop or remove - or I am reporting you or other cuss words.


Make this irritating and inappropriate harassment stop


iPhone 8, iOS 14

Posted on Mar 23, 2021 5:39 PM

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Mar 23, 2021 6:02 PM in response to DrSDD5

No need to apologize. This is a technical support forum. But for users to help other users. The reality is anyone can text us. We all get these awful messages. I got one this morning and it was vile. I take my time to go into each number and block them before I erase the text. I never get any responses when I do that as they are all blocked. But Apple doesn't control who sends text messages.


You can try a text blocking app. Here is one which seems to have solid reviews: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textkiller-spam-text-blocker/id1514005355

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