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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

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).

YEP, and NEVER UNSUBSCRIBE from any SPAM emails you get. That immediately opens up the flood gates and you're doomed to spam hell.