Junk mail has a new meaning nowadays. Rather than filling an actual mailbox, people are getting bombarded with texts and emails they never asked for.

The messages press you to send money for an unpaid bill or invite you out for a round of golf. The phone number sending the message might have an area code you don't know or might only be five digits long. No matter where it came from, junk texts steadily interrupt our day, often with nefarious intentions.

"I had one that was like the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and said something along the lines of an outstanding toll that you need to pay, and had a link there, and it just was very sketchy," one woman told WCCO. "I automatically report junk. I delete it and block the sender right away."

Andy Roehrs, a solutions architect with

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