Flash SMS messages still a major problem

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Do you know which level of support is required at the carrier to get them blocked?

My mom started receiving them on her device today and so far AT&T seems totally and completely flabbergasted. We’ve only made it to Tier 2 and are waiting on a manager to call back. I suspect, based on my prior tech support experience, that this is an issue that will need to go up to the engineers because the grunts answering the phones can barely comprehend that these are not regular text messages. I finally told Tier 2 to “google it” because I got tired of repeating myself.

This is an issue. Why does the government need an additional way to alert when we already have both Emergency Alerts and Amber Alerts we can control from settings? And those are already misused by the government entities using them.

Contact your cellular carrier. Flash SMS messages are illegal in most countries. Apple can’t stop them. Only your carrier can.