Applescript search and delete specific Mac Text Messages

Question

Hackers have daily targeted my Mac Messages app. I get a dozen or so messages daily from similar but slightly differing handles.

For example:

All of the handles using an email address has consistently utilized "[email protected]" at the end of the address. Yet, last week, these hackers are now using phone numbers too. So I can't programatically search for messages by handle now that email and phone number is used.

However, the message body copy is the same:

"Hello there"

Can I use actionscript to specifically target any message with "Hello there" string, then delete it without all the modal windows asking if I am sure, or if I want to report spam? And also a schedule the script to run every minute or so?

Thank you so much!

Bruce

Answer 1

I've been getting the exact same messages - about 30 per day, from random looking iCloud addresses which usually take the form of [email protected], but can also be cellphone numbers. They mostly arrive during the evening and overnight. I've tried "Report Junk" but it doesn't seem to do anything, and blocking the sender doesn't work because it's rarely the same sender twice. It's really frustrating!

Short of contacting Apple support the best thing to do is to keep reporting them as spam in the app.