iPhone XR Getting lots of spam texts from similar numbers, please help

[bungiefan89]

I dunno where to turn for with this problem so sorry for posting here if it's off topic, but a lot of this started after I switched from Android to my iPhone XR on the same carrier: Cricket Wireless in the U.S.
I keep getting text messages with obvious spam crap like:

"10-iPhone13 from AT&T​

TODAY​

/CODE:QDLAM​

src="[cryptic URL I'm not going to repost here]"​

But I've been getting more and more of these over the past few week, to the point I get at least one a day, and they have similar but unique phone numbers:

• 1410200500
• 1410100001
• 1410200501
• 1410200502
• 1410200503
• 1410100002
• 1410200506
• etc.

So far, I've done what I understand I should do in these cases: forwarding them to the FCC at the phone number 7726. But whenever I've done that, they respond with:

AT&T Free Msg: Thanks for providing us with the content of an unwanted message. Now, reply with the sender's phone number so we know who sent you this message.​

And I've always sent the phone number after that ... but lately they haven't been sending me that message above at all. Or the message is sent so much later that I've already tried forwarding them several more spam messages in the meantime ... and when these AT&T messages do finally get to me, I get several at once and it's not clear what they're responding to or which phone number I must send them, so now the FCC spam messages are becoming spam themselves.
I have every intention of calling/contacting the FCC and possibly my carrier tomorrow but I wanted to check here to know if I'm doing everything right? Am I dealing with this correctly?
On a side note, how do I forward to the FCC a text message when the entire text message is a hyperlink and there's no "safe" places to tap and hold to open the "More..." option for forwarding the text?

 

[Black Magic]

I dunno where to turn for with this problem so sorry for posting here if it's off topic, but a lot of this started after I switched from Android to my iPhone XR on the same carrier: Cricket Wireless in the U.S.
I keep getting text messages with obvious spam crap like:

"10-iPhone13 from AT&T​

TODAY​

/CODE:QDLAM​

src="[cryptic URL I'm not going to repost here]"​

But I've been getting more and more of these over the past few week, to the point I get at least one a day, and they have similar but unique phone numbers:

• 1410200500
• 1410100001
• 1410200501
• 1410200502
• 1410200503
• 1410100002
• 1410200506
• etc.

So far, I've done what I understand I should do in these cases: forwarding them to the FCC at the phone number 7726. But whenever I've done that, they respond with:

AT&T Free Msg: Thanks for providing us with the content of an unwanted message. Now, reply with the sender's phone number so we know who sent you this message.​

And I've always sent the phone number after that ... but lately they haven't been sending me that message above at all. Or the message is sent so much later that I've already tried forwarding them several more spam messages in the meantime ... and when these AT&T messages do finally get to me, I get several at once and it's not clear what they're responding to or which phone number I must send them, so now the FCC spam messages are becoming spam themselves.
I have every intention of calling/contacting the FCC and possibly my carrier tomorrow but I wanted to check here to know if I'm doing everything right? Am I dealing with this correctly?
On a side note, how do I forward to the FCC a text message when the entire text message is a hyperlink and there's no "safe" places to tap and hold to open the "More..." option for forwarding the text?

A lot of us are getting spam from those same numbers. ATT needs to provide better protection. Your best bet is to try another carrier or research their spam protection first.