Text Spam 1(410)100-xxx or 1(410)200-xxx

Those numbers indicate the texts are coming from email addresses through the email to text gateway. Yes there are many legitimate uses for texts from email. It is not possible to block those 1-410 numbers. When you forward one of those texts to 7726 and report the number, ATT is able to determine the originating email address and block that email. Unfortunately, the scammers and spammers just use a different email address.

Almost everyone is getting those types of message. The point of origin changes everytime so it's almost impossible to filter them out. And being as most of them come from overseas, U.S. laws don't apply to them so legally forcing them to stop is extremely difficult if not just plain impossible. Most are computer generated so besides the original authoring of the message, there are essentially no humans involved unless you click on a link or call a number.

The only thing you can do is not respond to them and delete them as soon as possible.

Just turned off email-to-text, but to get to the tech support person in AT&T is a trick. Yes, keep "article 446389" card ready.

First, don't go to AT&T Store, they don't know how and have no capabilities to do such thing. The first person did not even attempt to help me -- I had to seek help from second and third person, that were less snobby. (Also, the first person could not even demonstrate how to forward message to 7726.)

Second, call 611. (BTW, the 611 did not work yesterday or this morning). They will teach to forward to 7726, but I was cutting them by saying truth (I forwarded already over 100 message) Stand your ground: goal is find a smart technical person that is willing to help.

P.S. Webchat at att.com is a big HTML joke: the agent on other end said they enabled protection, but in fact they did nothing. (That's why I went to AT&T Store)

@async Read and understand the response from @sandblaster .