Don't forget also - those who want to be cheeky and respond and try to scam the scammer:
By responding to them, they now know that yours is a legitimate account, with a legitimate phone number, and that you actually respond to your text messages.
They can now sell your phone number to every scam artist and listing service in the world, for a tidy profit.
If you get a lot of spam messages and e-mails, most of them are because you actually responded to at least one of them in the past year (even if it was to tell them to bug off).
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