Text messages that are not requested. Also called "junk text," spam text followed spam email as yet another annoyance for people. Spam text typically contains a link to a website for some product ...

Spam texts have overtaken robocalls ... But thanks to new tech platforms, sending automated text messages or phone calls, also called robocalls, are cheap and effective ways to get directly ...

which can embolden them to send you more messages. Your information can also be sold to other spammers who are looking for "verified active" phone numbers. One way to counter spam texts is by ...

which can embolden them to send you more messages. Your information can also be sold to other spammers who are looking for "verified active" phone numbers. One way to counter spam texts is by ...

WSJ's Joanna Stern has the do's and don'ts of what to do with pesky marketing and spam text messages. Photo/video: Drew Evans/The Wall Street Journal.

A financial firm specialising in PPI tax refunds has been fined £120,000 by a watchdog for sending almost eight million unlawful spam text messages to people. Manchester-based Quick Tax Claims ...

so that can embolden them to send you more messages. Your information can also be sold to other spammers who are looking for "verified active" phone numbers. One way to counter spam texts is by ...

The government plans to strengthen penalties for senders of spam text messages, as well as businesses that fail to take active steps to block such messages. The Korea Communications ...

A charity has been told to stop sending spam texts during Ramadan after it bombarded people with 460,000 messages asking for donations. The Wakefield-based Penny Appeal sent the messages to 52,000 ...