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If you get a text message that looks to be from yourself, don't click on it.

of experts and of Verizon, which has received numerous complaints about customers getting spam text messages that seem to come from their own phone numbers. includes a thread published on Sunday that details a recent increase in"spoof" texts informing recipients that they've paid their March bill and can get a free gift by clicking a link.

"We can't block ourselves..........what's the solution Verizon?" asked one customer of the wireless giant. Another who reported getting the same message said the"link goes to a Russian State-Operated Live TV broadcast." I’ve seen a significant increase in spam texts, including spoofed messages, that appear to come from my own mobile number.

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