once or twice a week I get random text messages with "Hi". Nothing else.
I regularly get a phone call from some woman who speaks only spanish, and no matter how many times I tell her "wrong number" she calls me once or twice a week.
The Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James says that a reply to a scam message will authenticate the sending phone number as an active phone, which will, in turn, lead to more unwanted messages.