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Tips to Fight Spam on Your Computer and Cell Phone 8

7) Be stingy with your digits
If you want to avoid junk text messages clogging your cell phone's inbox, never hand out your number (online or in real life) unless you are certain whom you're giving it to. Recently, for example, one of those annoying Facebook quizzes asked participants for their phone numbers so it could send the results by text message. Instead, scammers used the phone numbers to bill users for taking the quiz.

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