How To Spot Report A Spam Text Forwarding To 7726 More

You’ve won! A promise of free gift cards, prizes, or coupons is a false promise. You won’t get those free things. You’re eligible for a low/no-cost credit card! There’s no credit card offer. You’re eligible for student loan forgiveness! You could be, but this company is most likely just scamming you to get your personal information, like your bank account logins.

Contact the company using a phone number you know is real, not one that’s included in the text. For a real number, search the internet for their contact information. The number in the text will lead you to a spoofed line that pretends to be official.

Be sure not to reply or tap any of the links in the message when doing this.

Your phone carrier may respond and ask for the number associated with that text. Reply with the number that sent the spam.

Be sure not to reply or tap any of the links in the message when doing this.

You can select more than one message, if necessary. [2] X Research source

You’ll receive a text from 7726 that asks you for the number that the spam message came from. Enter that number here (copy and paste it from the message if you need to), and send it back. That number will then be marked as spam and can not send you more messages.

This method is using Google Messages. Some phones, like Samsung phones, use a different Messages app by default.

This will only work for those using Samsung Messages on a Samsung phone.

Once you report the message, you may need to go back to the sender’s information and tap Block or you’ll be offered an option on-screen to block that caller immediately.

Just reporting does not block that contact. If you want to block them, you have to tap the Info button next to their name (in the conversation) and tap Block this Caller. [5] X Research source