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I have a blue tooth
Not all 5-6 digit SMS codes are considered premium messages. I have premium SMS blocked, but I can still receive the 6-digit SMS messages from my Chase card, and I also received a 5-digit SMS from Microsoft over the weekend regarding my Live account.Originally Posted by veriztd
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Now will someone train vzw csr's on this issue. Because this supervisor specifically said they could not make a distinction between free and charge premium text.
All my bank, school closing msg's, weather, espn, etc. are 5 or 6 digit. Will blocking premuim msg's block them or not???
I have a blue tooth
The only way you can find out for sure would be to institute the premium block and then test it to see if they still come through. Like I said, I have the premium block in place and I can receive the one's I have requested in the past fine. I get the quarterly texts from my Chase Freedom card to tell me what the bonus categories are for the quarter, and can reply to it to activate them. And in the past, sending a SMS to post a tweet also works as well.
I have never requested text messages from ESPN or any weather service, and our school district sends out emails rather than texts, so I don't know about those.
If you do try to send a text to one of those short codes that offers a free ringtone or free joke of the day where they sign you up for a monthly subscription fee, the block will send you an autoreply saying that the message is blocked and cannot be sent.
The SMS block is a line feature, so if you activate it and it does in fact blocks the texts you want to receive, you can always go back into your account in My Verizon and remove the block.
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The ones that charge a fee would be blocked. The 5-6 SMS codes that do not bill the account wouldn't. I believe that is the key difference, just like a regular SMS
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One suggestion would be to block all messaging for about 2 months and by then the spammers would give up. Isn't a perfect solution, but will work. While blocked, the spammers will get an "undeliverable" notification.
My screen is bigger than yours
I called again and getting similar answer. This guy basically said premium msg block may or may not block the messages I want to get. So I push for a better answer and he contacts someone in operation who says it blocks only message that would incur an additinal charge above the standard $.20 msg charge.
I guess I will turn it on and see what happens. Problem is I most likely won't know when a message was missed.
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I hope it works for you. Keep us up to date how it works.
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