How to fight back in the war against spam texts

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How to fight back in the war against spam texts

The software we need to stop spam texts is being outpaced by the software used to generate them. As soon as I sat down to write this, I got a text that simply said, “Hi.” In another era, I may have been intrigued by the mysterious message from an unknown number. Maybe I would’ve been curious about who wanted to say hello, and texted back. But this is not my first time playing this game. Scam texts are a growing multibillion-dollar industry. As …