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Is that a problem worldwide or more localized to the US? I am using Signal, Threema, and WhatsApp and never received spam on any messanger, only occasionally vi
by foepys 4y ago
Is that a problem worldwide or more localized to the US? I am using Signal, Threema, and WhatsApp and never received spam on any messanger, only occasionally via SMS.
- nordsieck 4y agoI receive more spam than legitimate messages on WhatsApp. But I also don't use it a whole lot. I suspect that, a bit like email addresses, being very selective about who you give your "address" to is the most important bit. Sadly, phone numbers, unlike email addresses, are such a small address space that it's possible to just message all of them.
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoI live 10,000km away from the US and can confirm that I get more spam on androids than when using iMessage. It wasn’t the main reason I switched back to iOS with my newest phone but it was a reason.
- pier25 4y agoI've been using Android for years and I rarely receive any spam via SMS or Whatsapp. Maybe once or twice a year.
- sofixa 4y agoMaybe it depends on the Android vendor, but my OnePlus' "Messages" (the SMS app) automatically blocks a lot of spam messages automatically and it's quite good at it. On the contrary I have friends with iPhones who get spam/phishing messages.
- SllX 4y agoVia SMS like everyone else with a mobile phone here, and especially around election dates. Apple’s done a few things recently to mitigate this and last election I reported a lot of phone numbers for spam to my carrier using a mechanism Apple built-in; so we’ll see if it starts to make a difference within a couple of years time.
- barkerja 4y agoMultiple times a week I receive WhatsApp spam. Generally it's trying to add me to a crypto group or someone trying to phish information. The only other service/medium where I get comparable (really any) spam is SMS/email. I've never, and I mean never, have received a spam message over iMessage.