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Recently a website that does customer support over SMS was DDOS'd. An angry customer wrote a script to spam the support line with thousands of texts. A hefty bill was racked up, but thankfully the customer was placated and the attack stopped.

It quickly came to the service's attention that Twilio (and any downstream providers) only supports blocking numbers for inbound calls:

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181648-Is-there-a-way-to-block-incoming-SMS-on-my-Twilio-phone-number-

The service is in search for an alternative, and hoping a fellow HN-er would be able to provide some insight/mitigations. It appears bandwidth.com does not support blocking SMS from specific numbers either, so the concern is that this may be a limitation of the telephony system.

Thank you in advance :)