Comment by sitkack

5 years ago

Nice to know I can burn anyone's account who is in my contact list.

This. Go burn as many contacts as possible, and if a wide enough group you will see the company change its policies.

Otherwise, well we're the product most of the time. (yes even apple messages, all your friends are there!)

  • This makes a strong case for determining the contact details of the Apple executives, and reporting them all as spam.

  • As you can only report messages you receive, and you probably need to report them many times before it has an effect, you are limited to hurting people you are in frequent contact with.

    So seems a little self destructive.

The entire premise of the spam-reporting feature seems misguided given the prevalence of number spoofing among scammers.

  • This is iMessage. You have to prove you own a phone number to send iMessages from it.

    • I wonder if the same flow applies to text messages, since as I understand it - they're all integrated.

      The thing I'm thinking of it:

      1. Find the number of $AppleEmployee

      2. Spoof a text message from $AppleEmployee to yourself.

      3. Report that as spam.

      Would 3 even work, and if so - would it have any impact on that employee's Apple account.

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