Spam Text Forensics Unit

We hunt spam texters.

Somebody paid to send you that text. Hand us the screenshot and we’ll track it back to them — who they are, what the federal courts already say about them, and what you can do next.

Fee

None

Account

Not required

Turnaround

About thirty seconds

Some spam comes from operations nobody can touch. When that’s the answer, we say so instead of selling you hope.

Laboratory procedure

How a file is built

1. Evidence is logged. Your screenshot is stored and hashed. The hash goes on the file, so anyone reading it later can confirm the image was not altered after submission.
2. The message is transcribed. Sender, body, links, timestamps, and whether an opt-out was sent and what arrived afterwards.
3. The origin is classified. A registered short code, a 10-digit long code, a toll-free number and an email gateway are four very different things, and they set a ceiling on what can be established at all.
4. The links are followed. Redirect chains usually end at the advertiser who paid for the message rather than the sender.
5. Public records are searched. Federal court dockets, checked for the parties we identified.
6. It is graded and written up. See below.

How the grade is decided

Tier A

A named advertiser, at high confidence.

Tier B

A named intermediary; the advertiser is probable but not established.

Tier C

Infrastructure only — a valid subpoena target, but no brand behind it yet.

Tier D

Unattributable. Usually an offshore operation nobody can recover from.

The origin sets a ceiling the write-up can lower but never raise. An anonymous gateway cannot produce a Tier A file no matter how convincing the message looks.

What happens next

If a file shows a pattern worth pursuing, you can choose to have it referred to a licensed attorney who handles this kind of claim. They decide whether to take it. If they do, they represent you — not us — and you deal with them directly.

What we do not do

• We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice.
• We do not send demand letters, and we never contact a sender on your behalf.
• We do not file anything with any court.
• We never take a percentage of any recovery. If money is ever recovered it comes from a settlement, through your attorney, and not through us.
• We do not decide whether a law was broken. Our file records what we found; that question belongs to an attorney and ultimately to a court.

An analysis is not a legal determination, and nothing here is legal advice or a prediction of any outcome.

Public record

The law has teeth

Unwanted marketing calls and texts are governed by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. These are real, publicly docketed federal cases, resolved for the amounts shown.

What these are, precisely. Each is a settlement: an agreement to resolve a claim. A settlement is not a finding of wrongdoing, and in most of these the defendant expressly denied doing anything unlawful. They are listed because they are public records showing what this statute is worth when a pattern is proven — not as accusations, and not as a promise about any other case. We have no involvement in any of them.

What the statute actually requires

Registry

More than one marketing message in twelve months, from the same sender, to a number on the Do Not Call registry.

Opt-out

A business must honour STOP regardless of whether you consented earlier.

Per message

$500, which a court may increase up to three times for a knowing violation. Discretionary, not automatic.

Who pays

Often the advertiser who bought the campaign, not just the company that pressed send.

Rules vary by state and by federal circuit, and they change — a federal appeals court narrowed part of this in July 2026. Your own situation is a question for an attorney.