Are you getting fed up with the spam SMS messages from your friend or someone whom you don’t know? Well, in that case there are two options left with you. One is either you stay quite or take an action. If you choose to stay quite then I am sure you would get conned one day and if you have decided to take action then there are further two things you can do. Directly report that person or use third party applications to divert his/her messages. There are applications like Do Not Disturb (DND) which can help you a lot in diverting those spam messages.
How to use Do Not Disturb
You can start using Do Not Disturb applications quite easily by just following this simple tutorial –
Step 1 – Unlock your device.
Step 2 – Head on to Google Play and download Do Not Disturb from there.
Step 3 – Now just send an SMS with text “START 0” (without quotes) to 1909 number.
That’s all. Maximum of all those who used this app say that they stopped getting spam messages within next 7 days. If you are lucky, you too would stop getting spam SMS messages.
What if this doesn’t work?
Well in that case you can directly report that number. To lodge a complaint against that number you need to write an SMS in this format
COMP TEL NO XXXXXXXXXX, dd/mm/yy, Time hh:mm
And send it to 1909. Here XXXXXXXXXX represents the telephone number against which you are going to lodge the complaint and dd/mm/yy represents the correct format to write and same goes with hh:mm for representing time.
Other Alternatives
If you are having an Android OS you surely get a lot of choices in applications and here too you have got some choices. There is another app called SMSpam developed by an Indian to report the spam messages. SMSpam’s working algorithm is similar to that of Gmail’s spam button.
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