Spam Texts

Guides on unsolicited text messages: the consent rules, why replying STOP is decisive, per-message statutory damages, and what to preserve.

• Text Spam From Lead Generators: Who Is Actually Liable? — When a quote form turns into a flood of texts, the company that bought your lead and sent or commissioned the messages is usually the liable party, not the website. Here is how the chain works and where the consent fight stands.
• Texas Telemarketing Texts: What Changed for Recipients in 2025 — Since September 1, 2025, a marketing text to a Texas number is a telephone solicitation under state law. SB 140 extended registration, no-call and enforcement rules to texts and opened DTPA remedies. Here is what it means for you.
• How to Document Spam Texts So a Claim Actually Holds Up — Screenshot every spam text with the number and timestamp in frame, reply STOP once and keep everything after it, pull your carrier records, and log each message in a timeline. Never delete; the count and sequence are the claim.
• Group Text Spam and iMessage Blasts: Why They Happen and What to Keep — Group text spam reaches dozens of numbers in one send, and iMessage blasts ride internet servers that carrier filters never see. Do not reply to the group; screenshot it, report it as junk, leave it, and keep the right evidence.
• What a real consent record looks like (they must produce it) — The company texting you says you opted in. Consent is a record with required contents, and the sender is the party that must produce it. Here is what the record has to contain.
• Unwanted texts: the same law, and why STOP matters so much — A text is treated as a call under federal law — same consent requirement, same per-message damages. Replying STOP is the single most consequential thing you can do.
• Your business line has rights against spam texts — Funding offers and listing scams hit work cells all day because senders assume business numbers are fair game. The number is protected, and state statutes reach further.
• Does replying STOP make it worse? — The common advice says never reply, even STOP, because it confirms your number is live. Half right. What STOP actually does legally, and when silence is the better move.
• Why the law prices texts per message — Every violating text is its own violation: $500 in statutory damages, up to $1,500 where willful. What per-message pricing means, and why your dated log is the multiplier.
• The quote form that never stops texting — One insurance or loan quote form can turn into texts from a dozen companies you never named. How lead resale works, what the fine print claims, and what survives it.
• New number, someone else's spam — A new phone number often arrives carrying the previous owner's sign-ups and marketing lists. Why recycled numbers come pre-spammed, and the cleanup sequence that works.
• What the sender's number format tells you — Short codes, ten-digit numbers, toll-free senders and email gateways each say something about who is texting and how accountable they are. A field guide to reading the format.
• The "Hi, is this Sarah?" text is not a wrong number — The friendly misdirected text is an engagement test: any reply marks your number as live and human. How the long con opens, and why this differs from ordinary marketing spam.
• Why your dentist can text you but marketers can't — Appointment reminders, delivery updates and login codes ride on a different kind of consent than marketing blasts. The tiers explain which texts are legal and which are not.