Just relying on blocking specific words isn't the best fix. You've gotta attack this problem from different angles. Big names like Doordash or Uber blast messages all the time, so you need a way to tell them apart from new senders who suddenly flood you. The bad guys will switch senders fast, so now you gotta find a way to fingerprint messages. They'll even tweak the text slightly, so you need fuzzy fingerprinting techniques. And then there's the headache of defining what's spam. Some folks see political donation requests or marketing pitches as spam, while others don't. Sorting these messages becomes a puzzle. Then you have to ask yourself if spam and scam are two distinct types of messages. Spotting scam messages means digging into their content, like checking URLs to sniff out if they're fishy. And phishing? That stuff looks real and can play out across a whole message chain.
estiaan|2 years ago
The only text messages I get from humans are from old people and from coworkers. Humans don’t ever send me text messages with links.
The only legitimate links in text messages I get are from parcels tracking things and many scammers spoof those text messages.
Meanwhile I don’t think I’ve ever received a spam message that doesn’t contain a link, at least not in the last 5 years
The solution is extreme, and I’m sure some legit messages will get blocked but man I really wish on iOS there was a native way to block any messages containing a link.