How to reply to a short message from an overseas number?

It's okay. This is a harassing call. Ignore it. If you often get calls from overseas and you don't know them, you can install a mobile phone housekeeper. Don't answer the phone, let alone call again.

These harassing calls are all virtual numbers, and the displayed addresses are not real. Criminals access the networks of individual international operators through servers or switches deployed abroad to harass calls.

These overseas harassing calls are constantly changing numbers, and often an international number is called only once. The harassment characteristics of a single number are not obvious, so it is difficult to shield it by traditional methods such as marking or blacklisting the numbers one by one.

Harassment call handling:

The customer service staff of China Mobile suggested that mobile users can call 10086 to report harassing calls. "We can send a short message link to the user. The user clicks on the link to enter the mobile phone report page, and just copy and paste the harassment number. Generally, just copy a few numbers."

The customer service staff said that although the number and address of online harassing calls vary widely, the IP address is the same. "We can block many harassing calls by blocking an IP address." After reporting, users can also scan the code to follow the official account of China Mobile 10086 WeChat, and track the status of reporting information in real time. Figures show that up to now, in 2020, China Mobile received a total of 3703 1 harassment phone reports.