Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by vachina on Saturday December 09, 2023 @12:02AM
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I’m not lying. Also not sure why I’m downvoted. I occasionally receive spam messages from iMessage users, not conventional SMS. I do not know how these spammers manage to send them, but the senders are always identified with an email in the app, that’s how I could tell it apart from conventional SMS.
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Re:Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access
by skygazer on Saturday December 09, 2023 @01:39AM
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I guess (based on the skeptical reactions) your experience is atypical now-a-days, but based on your comment, I did find a 2014 wired article saying that while previously unheard of, iMessage now [then] accounted for 30% of spam, from email addresses like you described. I had no idea. Somehow I avoided that. I didn’t find anything more recent, though, so maybe it’s less of a problem now?
https://www.wired.com/2014/08/apples-imessage-is-being-taken...
I do know first hand that Apple will turn off (starting at several days) an Apple user’s ability to use iMessage if they get even several reports, though.