Beware: Do not click on this text message from Amazon if you receive it

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I was on a video chat a few days ago with someone who works at Facebook, and the conversation turned at one point to the various messaging alternatives to the social networking giant's standalone Messenger app. He held up his iPhone and showed me his screen as he scrolled through a pretty long list of scammy text messages, many of them from Amazon purporting to announce things like a winning raffle award. I've already made my thoughts clear on this in previous posts -- that whatever you want to say about the social network, a comparison of Messenger to something like iMessage is not even close when it comes to which one handles junk texts and scam texts better.

About those unwanted messages, we'd like to zero in on one kind of them -- the now-pervasive Amazon scam texts, which have become such a problem that the Better Business Bureau has been inundated with hundreds of complaints from people about them. And Amazon has also filed what's known as a John Doe lawsuit, where a matter is so urgent that you seek help from a court of law even before you know the identity of the perpetrator.

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