U.S. regulators say scam texts have gotten out of control, and it is time for cellphone companies to do more to stop them.
Under new rules adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission, mobile-service providers have to block robotext messages the agency says are highly likely to be illegal. That includes texts from numbers that shouldn’t be sending messages, such as unused and invalid numbers, as well as those that government agencies identify as not for texting.
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