Spam text now coming with email address

This is NOT helping. 7726 requires you to report the originating phone number.  It doesn't accept email addresses.  Please address this growing problem, AT&T, with a real solution, such as letting your users disable the txt.att.net setting for their phone number if they wish to do so!

Unable to "forward" the unwanted text/email. When copying the message and then sending a message to 7726 it asks for a phone number ? 

Seriously At&t your tech people should be able to address this situation PRONTO. As customers we pay entirely way too much to not have the choice who can message our phones.

I second, third, and fourth  the need to deal with this NOW.  In the past month I am being deluged with these on my iPhone.  Far as I can tell AT&T Call Protect does not deal with this, not is there any info as to whether Call Protect Plus is any better.  Just saying "block caller" on the iphone does not work.  Same bozos sending the same crap about That Which Cannot Be Named enhancement over and over, though number is blocked; I am a 75 year old women and seriously don't care about that!  Spammers have found a HUGE hole in the security set ups and the carriers need to do something about it. I am also complaining to Apple, who with IOS 11 set up this marvy opportunity to combine text and email. 

apparently not solved.

I read somewhere that after a particular date in June 2019 an opportunity opened for spammers. Cannot remember the particulars but one would think with all of the tech people employed by cellphone service providers that this new loophole could be easily rectified. 

I suppose in our case At&t will continue to be amused by their customers complaints while they discuss how to spend the bonuses.

Check this post out.

https://forums.att.com/t5/Account-Features/Block-text-messages-from-email-address-spammers-latest-technique/m-p/5947704#M40808

Try to find it in the settings and prohibit receiving emails from addresses with a certain name.

I'm so freaking tired of them! One day, I remember, one spam message specifically drove me out of my mind, and I almost crashed my laptop. It happened at a critical moment at work, and I lost the emails I needed. I was spammed with advertising, and then again I received letters with "the best offers ever" requesting, of course, that I pay in advance. After that, I turned to my manager, and he recommended https://folderly.com/email-spam-fix to me, which, it turns out, enables me to block users with a specific name or eliminate spam ingeniously. Try it too.