What about turning off text messaging temporarily? Surely, if these people
are texting you because they are mis-typing the phone number of someone they
intended, and they get no reply for a month, they will get the correct
destination phone number from their friend.

I haven't seen anyone asking this question get a reply indicating that Vzw
can selectively turn off messages from designated senders. The replies I've
seen seem to be a) turn off texting, b) change your phone number, or c) buy
a text plan so each message doesn't cost you.

You might also browse howardforums.com for a solution. That's a much bigger
forum.

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Scott
<jacy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Lately I've been getting text messages from people I don't know. Not
> selling anything, just boring stuff like, "Call me when you get home"
> or "How was the movie". The senders are sometimes from vtext.com but
> often as not they have seemingly valid phone numbers, but with faraway
> area codes. I've tried responding to some of these people that they
> have the wrong person/number and they either ignore me entirely or
> reply with a ***? type of comment.
>
> The problem seems to be getting worse, as I used to get wrong messages
> perhaps once a week. Now it's as many as 4 or 5 a day. The other day
> one message repeated itself about 5 times, marked as 'Duplicate
> Message' by VZW. I thought perhaps there might be some sort of tech
> problem so I called Verizon. Waste of time, that was. Said my only
> option is to block text messages entirely. I don't have a text plan
> and don't need one but neither do I want to totally turn off texting
> because once or twice a month it comes in quite handy.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts on this? Should I push for more tech support
> or is this happening to lots of people?
>
> Thanks,
> Jacy