Blocking or reporting iMessage spam?

I'm getting daily spams in iMessage advertising a game called DragonVale. I've never heard of this game or the sender, so this is totally unsolicited. How do I block the sender, and/or report them to Apple?
For the curious, the messages are from [email protected] and read
"Raise your own dragons in DragonVale! Download it on your iPhone now:" (followed by a URL)
If you do a web search for that first sentence, you'll see a lot of Twitter spams as the top hits.
Most services social these days have a mechanism to report spam; I'm kind of surprised iMessage doesn't.
--Jens

As stated in the Spam FAQ page, you will not get any response when sending the message to [email protected] for review. You attach the message that you are unable to send, and they review it. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the filter will either be updated to allow the content that was previously blocked, or it will be determined to be a legitimate block and no changes will be made.
Some troubleshooting steps you can try:
If you have a signature, try removing one line at a time from it and attempting to send the message again. Some signatures look like "ads" to the filters, apparently.
If you are using a pop3 client (Outlook, Outlook Express, etc.) try sending your message from the verizon.net website. If this resolves the issue, then it is something that your client is adding to the message that is causing it to be blocked.
If the Subject line of your message has a whole bunch of "Fwd: Fwd: Re: Fwd:" try removing some of them.
Remove any links/URLs from the email one at a time to isolate if one of them is causing the block.
Some people have suggested sending the message to [email protected] for investigation. This may work for you as well.
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Accidental Block and report as spam

I accidentally blocked and reported as spam a request from a friend that used an unfamiliar alias. Since then I went back and accepted them as a contact.
My question is this - is there any consequence from my having reported it as spam? Was that nullified by my subsequently accepting them? Just wondering if I need to report this to Skype or something as I would hate to have caused a problem for my friend's account.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hi, Jeromel, and welcome to the Community,
Marking a contact request as Abuse or Spam is not reversable, however the errant mouse click should cause no undue consequences.
Regards,
Elaine
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You can Turn Off iMessages..Turn Of Notifications & Sounds..that way only You kno its there..
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Sorting in Blocked ALV Report

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I want to show 'Gaurav' only in the first row and the other two rows must be empty.
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    EXPORTING
      i_program_name         = sy-repid
      i_structure_name       = 'ZCRM_ACTIVITY_REPORT'
    CHANGING
      ct_fieldcat            = gt_fieldcatalog[]
    EXCEPTIONS
      inconsistent_interface = 1
      program_error          = 2
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      gs_sort-tabname = 'GT_ITAB'.
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      gs_sort-up = 'X'.
      APPEND gs_sort TO gt_sort.
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    gs_sort-fieldname = 'EMPLOYEE'.
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    gs_sort-spos = '2'.
    gs_sort-up = 'X'.
    APPEND gs_sort TO gt_sort.
ENDIF.
CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_BLOCK_LIST_APPEND'
      EXPORTING
        is_layout                  = gt_layout
        it_fieldcat                = gt_fieldcatalog
        i_tabname                  = 'GT_ITAB'
        it_events                  = gt_events
        it_sort                    = gt_sort
        i_text                     = 'Report 1 '
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        t_outtab                   = gt_itab
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        program_error              = 1
        maximum_of_appends_reached = 2
        OTHERS                     = 3.
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How to handle Events in Blocked ALV report

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Thanks,
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Thanks in advance
Thanks & Regards,
Rayeezuddin.

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18. No_subtotals(1) TYPE c : No subtotals possible
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22. Totals_only(1) TYPE c : Show only totals
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We have team members who are at odds over how this event is handled and it's coverage.
After enabling this is sp_configure, and for the sake of argument keeping the threshold = 5 (default), and no other trace filters are applied - which of the following is true, false, or misunderstood:
1. All-inclusive. The report will be generated for ANY transaction that is blocked for more than 5 seconds, meaning all transactions are contrasted against this threshold and no such transactions would be missed.
2. "ad-hoc query-like" ; point-in-time only. The threshold is only contrasted against at a point-in-time only, in that at a set interval active transactions are reported against. This would mean blocked transactions that occur between this interval
would not be reported against.
Reading the MSDN/BOL articles, the language used is terse and somewhat left open to interpretation.
The general discussion that started this is around whether or not running an external query (such as in SSMS) to report on blocking (which only reports on transactions at that point in time) is basically the same thing as running the blocked process report
trace event, except in the trace event the "query" is run at "some interval" automatically.
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It's number 2: every 5 seconds the "LOCK MONITOR" checks for blocked processes and depending on the threshold will accumulate the sessions which are "still standing" after the threshold time, let's say 30 seconds.
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Can you somehow resolve blocked process report stmt to the actual sql text / plan cache?
Example:
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<frame line="18" stmtstart="640" sqlhandle="0x03000900280270067c9946015aa200000100000000000000"/>
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Proc [Database Id = 9 Object Id = 108003880] </inputbuf>
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<executionStack>
<frame line="57" stmtstart="4426" stmtend="4586" sqlhandle="0x03000900f28e8b0183d457018a9d00000100000000000000"/>
<frame line="32" stmtstart="1824" stmtend="2042" sqlhandle="0x030009001b21cf3f56fe3c01dca100000100000000000000"/>
</executionStack>
<inputbuf>
Proc [Database Id = 9 Object Id = 1070539035] </inputbuf>
</process>
</blocking-process>
</blocked-process-report>

Here is an example to get you going:
DECLARE @x xml = '
<blocked-process-report>
<blocked-process>
<process id="process2713c9048" taskpriority="0" logused="0" waitresource="RID: 9:3:195169:57" waittime="29735" ownerId="1750917834" transactionname="SELECT" lasttranstarted="2014-01-10T13:47:06.493"
XDES="0x259c278e0" lockMode="S" schedulerid="4" kpid="4148" status="suspended" spid="307" sbid="0" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="0" lastbatchstarted="2014-01-10T13:47:06.493"
lastbatchcompleted="2014-01-10T13:47:06.493" lastattention="2014-01-10T13:46:55.703" clientapp="Index" hostname="IMAGIOZFPWEB1" hostpid="12000" loginname="imagiouser" isolationlevel="read committed
(2)" xactid="1750917834" currentdb="9" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="673185824" clientoption2="128056">
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<frame line="18" stmtstart="640" sqlhandle="0x03000900280270067c9946015aa200000100000000000000"/>
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Proc [Database Id = 9 Object Id = 108003880]   </inputbuf>
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clientapp="Index" hostname="IMAGIOZFPWEB2" hostpid="4472" loginname="imagiouser" isolationlevel="read committed (2)" xactid="1750871840" currentdb="9" lockTimeout="4294967295"
clientoption1="671088672" clientoption2="128056">
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<frame line="57" stmtstart="4426" stmtend="4586" sqlhandle="0x03000900f28e8b0183d457018a9d00000100000000000000"/>
<frame line="32" stmtstart="1824" stmtend="2042" sqlhandle="0x030009001b21cf3f56fe3c01dca100000100000000000000"/>
   </executionStack>
   <inputbuf>
Proc [Database Id = 9 Object Id = 1070539035]   </inputbuf>
</process>
</blocking-process>
</blocked-process-report>'
; WITH CTE AS (
SELECT sqlhandle = convert(varbinary(64), T.c.value('@sqlhandle', 'varchar(128)'), 1),
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   stmtend   = T.c.value('@stmtend', 'int')
FROM   @x.nodes('/blocked-process-report/blocked-process/process/executionStack/frame') AS T(c)
SELECT substring(est.text, CTE.stmtstart / 2,
   CASE WHEN CTE.stmtend IS NOT NULL
THEN (CTE.stmtend - CTE.stmtstart) / 2
ELSE len(text)
   END)
FROM CTE
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(CTE.sqlhandle) AS est
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

ALV horizantal blocks in report

I have a requirement for display of the 3 different blocks in report HORIZANTALLY ( NOT VERTICAL).. is it possible for me to display data in 3 blocks by using ALV some way!??
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hi,
you can achieve it through blocked alv's.
check below example.
*& Report ZSR_ALV_BLOCKED
REPORT ZSR_ALV_BLOCKED.
TABLES: KNA1,LFA1.
SELECT-OPTIONS : CUST FOR KNA1-KUNNR,
                 VENDOR FOR LFA1-LIFNR.
DATA : BEGIN OF ITAB OCCURS 0,
       LIFNR LIKE LFA1-LIFNR,
       LAND1 LIKE LFA1-LAND1,
       NAME1 LIKE LFA1-NAME1,
       END OF ITAB.
DATA : BEGIN OF JTAB OCCURS 0,
       KUNNR LIKE KNA1-KUNNR,
       LAND1 LIKE KNA1-LAND1,
       NAME1 LIKE KNA1-NAME1,
       END OF JTAB.
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       LAYOUT TYPE SLIS_LAYOUT_ALV,
       EVENTS_B TYPE SLIS_T_EVENT.
DATA : REPID LIKE SY-REPID.
REPID = SY-REPID.
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       LAND1
       NAME1
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       WHERE KUNNR IN CUST.
SELECT LIFNR
       LAND1
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    I_CALLBACK_PROGRAM             = REPID.
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FORM APPENDBLOCK TABLES JTAB USING ITAB.
REFRESH KNA1_B.
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EXPORTING
   I_PROGRAM_NAME               = SY-REPID
I_INTERNAL_TABNAME           = ITAB
I_INCLNAME                   = REPID
CHANGING
    CT_FIELDCAT                  = KNA1_B.
CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_BLOCK_LIST_APPEND'
EXPORTING
    IS_LAYOUT                        = LAYOUT
    IT_FIELDCAT                      = KNA1_B
    I_TABNAME                        = ITAB
    IT_EVENTS                        = EVENTS_B
TABLES
    T_OUTTAB                         = JTAB.
ENDFORM.

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your help is appreciated, Is blocked ALV report a solution for this?
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Depends on whether you are using the same iCloud account on the device, or if you are syncing Contacts via iTunes, if you are syncing both devices to the same computer.
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