Other posters say they have had success in forwarding these illegal texts to 7726. They are picked up by your cell phone carrier who will ask you to send them the phone number so they can investigate and have spam filters installed to block the texts. The following article tells you everything you need to know:
Security company Cloudmark created a spam messaging reporting service that nation’s major wireless carriers agreed earlier this year to start using. Now, customers of AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint and others can forward their text spam message to 7726. The mobile phone carrier will ask customers for the phone number that’s linked to the spam message so they and Cloudmark can start investigating.
They sent me a text message saying Hello and my name like they knew me...when I asked who is this I got no reply and then I called the number...It's an advertisement
Sent a text message saying "Hi, Danielle???" I sent a reply and didnt get one back, then called the number and it said that it is someones personal messaging number to get your own personal messaging number call...bla bla bla. scam.
same as was written by others...text saying"Hello and my name....." I just said they had the wrong number. Didnt call the number. Looked area code to be in Rhode Island