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When you get a spam SMS message you should forward it to 7726 (that's S-P-A-M on your phone keypad).
Many mobile carriers around the world are moving to the 7726 short code as a standard way to report text message spam, although in some countries they use a different short code, such as in France where the code is 33700. If you don't get the expected response from 7726, then check with your mobile carriers for the best way to send in spam reports.
If you check out the blog posts from Monday (iPhone) and Tuesday (Android), you can see that forward a spam to a short code requires several steps.
So in addition to using 7726, Verizon Wireless customers in the US, who have Android phones, have another, slightly easier spam reporting option. Verizon offers a Messaging App called Verizon Messages that contains a Report Spam button. Here's how it works.
1. When you receive a spam message, tap on the Menu button
2. To report the message as spam, tap on Report Spam
3. Verizon Messages will check that you're sure you want to report the message as spam, just so you don't accidentally report your friends as spam. If it it's a real spam message then tap on Report Spam to confirm.
That's it. All done!
You can see that reporting spam using Verizon Messages is much easier than the multiple steps required to report spam using forwarding on your iPhone or Android. Hopefully in the future other mobile carriers will do something similar to Verizon Wireless and offer similar easy ways to report text message spam.
Verizon Messages is available on the Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.verizon.messaging.vzmsgs