Y! Messenger: My ignore settings are on, but getting texts to my mobile.?

Question

I researched and this has been asked, but I didn't find an answer. Please help! When using my Yahoo Messenger from my computer, I have "ignore everyone not on my messenger list" chosen for a setting. But, when I go "mobile" and have my yahoo texts sent to my phone, all of a sudden, I am getting nonsense messages from people who are not on my messenger. Not many, just 1 or 2 in the middle of the night. It's clearly from a spam name. My close friend is in Iraq and I leave my phone on at night so I can get HIS messages, but I do not want to be woken up by these spam texts, when they are not even supposed to be coming through. Plus, I have "hide me status from other Yahoo users" enabled. I thought I was blocking them but they are coming from Yahoo user, not from anywhere else, such as my cell phone provider. Can anyone help??? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Your stealth settings are different when logged into Yahoo Mobile

As soon as you get the spam messages, it cannot be helped!

reply --->>>ignore

this will add them to your ignore list and hopefully this will lessen the messages..

Yahoo has now way of blocking spam messages...

but a suggestion could be to go in and edit your contact details

in the FIRST box  type in a bunch of characters

^&*%$# before your name and then this way it makes it harder to spam.. I HAVE DONE THIS  and do not get spam messages