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Text messages about 659-XXX-XXXX is a landline#...

I randomly receive text messages from 900080004222 saying "659xxxxxxx is a landline#. Reply Y to send all TXT messages ...." I saw the earlier post about this in a previous discussion that said this was legitimate message and that a text message to a contact defaulted to a home phone (landline). This is NOT what is occurring in my experience. I receive these messages at seemingly random times (middle of the night, while I am at work and haven't texted in 3-4 hours, while driving and have not texted in many hours). I am checking my bills regularly and fortunately, I do not seem to be billed for these. However, I do not know how they originate, I don't trust them and would like to block them (but can't seem to do that) and would like them to stop.

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Verizon_Support

WesNie,

I am so sorry you are receiving text messages from this odd number. Have you ever in the past tried to text the number that it states is a land line number? Do you notice the landline number at all? How long have you been receiving these messages?

LindseyT_VZW

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WesNie

Hi Lindsey,

I started receiving these messages sporadically about 5-6 months ago.

I do not recall any problem texts or notices or error messages prior to

these messages showing up.

I have not ever tried to text to this number. In fact, I looked up the

area code and it does not exist. There is no such area code. I

suspect that the entire number is false and does not exist. It is not

flagged by my security software (Trend Micro).

I have not replied to any of the messages and from what I can tell, I

have not been charged the $0.25 per message as claimed in the text.

Let me know what to do. Why is this occurring?

Regards,

Wes

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Verizon_Support

Thanks for the additional information WesNie! You can stop this messages by sending a text message to 900080004222 with the message OPT OUT 659-XXX-XXXX were you will replace the Xs with the actual number you get.

AntonioC_VZW Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/VZWSupport

WesNie

I followed your advice and did the OPT OUT 659-xxx-xxxx I also put this number on the block list. This seemed to work for about 6 days. Today I received 4 of these messages. Obviously OPT OUT did not work. It also appears that Blocking does not work.

I also received one of the silent messages (no notification, no alerts, nothing - it just shows up in my message list).

The message is as follows;

+65 923204290

%1hpy70X----- where ---- are a series of characters, numbers, and ascii characters totaling about 120 characters in all.

The +65 prefix is an international call supposedly from somewhere in the Caribbean.

I would really like these messages to stop. The advice given so far does not work. I cannot block the international number as Verizon only allows 10 digit numbers and international calls are >10 digits.

Can someone please provide some help that works on how to stop these?

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