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I had working RCS on Android. Turns out that random people can add you to groups, send spam and from what I can see you can do nothing to prevent it. I've disa
by oblio 1y ago
I had working RCS on Android.
Turns out that random people can add you to groups, send spam and from what I can see you can do nothing to prevent it. I've disabled it.
So don't fret too much about not having it.
- TavsiE9s 1y agoSame, it got enabled for me during an iOS update, forgot about it and suddenly got added to groups without my knowledge or consent and after about 100+ spam messages during a night I disabled RCS. What a waste.
- z0mghii 1y agoThat's exactly why they are banning it on lineage and custom roms
- zeeZ 1y agoLast time I had enabled RCS I received a flood of "DHL needs your address" and "Mom I have a new phone number" scams from the UK and the Philippines. So far I'm not aware of anything useful I've missed out on by not having it enabled.
- vel0city 1y agoI had random people adding me to groups to send spam to my phone even before RCS. In fact, I don't think I've ever received spam through RCS, but I have through MMS and even more so through SMS. Looking back at all the spam texts I've received in the past several months, every single instance was SMS/MMS. Not a single time of RCS.
- oblio 1y agoFor some reason Android is quite good at blocking SMS spam these days, except for the RCS group thing. At least for my specific use case, in Europe.