watch includes voice calling and texting features, and can read text. Don't forget, you can get tech news delivered straight to your inbox by subscribing to the Talking Tech newsletter. Attorneys when he is, which can text messages on the phone records all cellular. Do you have any comments, questions, show ideas? Any tech problems you want us to try to address? You can find me on Twitter Please don't forget to subscribe and rate us or leave a review on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, anywhere you get your podcasts. So we'll keep an eye on this and we'll provide any updates on this situation. But again, that's something to watch out for. And of course the first thought you have when you are doing this is, am I reporting my own number as spam? I haven't gotten any indication that's the case. Really frustrating, especially when you see your own phone number pop up on there. But this is a really interesting twist to all the phishing spam text messages that you might get because it seems like it's happening a lot lately. So you can report it as junk and what that does is that sends it to Verizon, it deletes it from your phone, and you're all set. One thing that I did on my iPhone was I would try to delete the message and it would say, I couldn't delete it but you could report it as junk. Don't click on the link, whatever you do. Verizon said it is working to block these spam texts that have popped up that customers say they've received from their own numbers. You can retrieve the date/time/recipient for as long as you have your account. I write about this in a story that you can read on . Verizon only stores the 'content' of the text messages for up to seven days.
If you are someone that is on Verizon Wireless's network, this might have happened to you too. Here's the thing that was weird about it. Here's a special gift," with a random link. I got this really weird spam text message and it basically said, "Thanks for paying your March bill. I was saying last night because I'm recording this on a Tuesday, but you're hearing this on a Wednesday. So this happened to me the other night actually. More: Daily news, true crime, and more USA TODAY podcasts There may be some differences between the audio and the text. This transcript was automatically generated, and then edited for clarity in its current form. Hit play on the player above to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript below.
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