It’s been going on for months and no matter how many I mark as spam and block they keep coming back with new numbers!
Makes me wonder if someone signed me up for something
I guess republicans are dumb enough to be susceptible to this garbage?
You’re talking about people who consider Newsmax and “One America News” to be the only reliable news sources and believe that Donald Trump, who managed to spend 4 years indirectly robbing them blind and would not spit on them if they were on fire, is somehow the most persecuted man in all of history.
They would believe just about anything.
Democratic candidates send texts too. I don’t go around handing out my phone number but at some point I must have given it to someone, perhaps Bernie when I volunteered for his campaign. Of course they sold it to more democrats who sold it to more democrats. I reply STOP to every single text I get but there are always more because my number gets sold to someone new.
Charities do this too. Give $100 to your local food bank and you’ll start getting donation appeals by mail from 5 other charities.
It should be illegal.
I dunno about other states but in CT they can get your info from voter registration records. 3 local politicians have lost my vote by sending me crap (I contacted them and told them that)
Is this legal?
Legality is not a concern when it’s paid for
It probably falls under the ‘not illegal’ category. They got the number somehow, and I would bet it’s from some stupid agreement that lets a company sell his number and whoever buys it is allowed to send messages to it.
It’s also hard to get harassment charges for these, since realistically it is hard to contact the assholes and tell them to stop sending messages, which is required for most cases. There’s also the issue that harassment needs to be a repeated thing (and usually after being told to stop) from the same source/conspiracy. If you could prove all of these different messages were from the exact same organization, or that each entity sending the messages had collaborated, you could possibly get a judge to agree that harassment took place. Then, of course, your issue becomes the question of who did the harassment. If the judge/jury believes that it was a particular individual at the corporation, maybe that person could be prosecuted, but if they only will say that it was the entity, like a PAC or LLC or inc. or whatever, you’re boned. No one holds business/political entities accountable.
All that to say… those of us who get these messages are boned, with little legal recourse. I just block the numbers and delete. It seems like it works, because I haven’t gotten any messages like OP did for the last year or so. They must reuse numbers to send texts.
No wonder grannies and grandpas fall for those assholes. Regarding your wondering, sometimes sites info leaks because of some vulnerability and they don’t even say. Check if some of the sites you have your phone number on hasn’t been hacked or some shit. It’s surprising how many leaks sites don’t report.
Those messages sound pretty creepy ngl
I will always love you…
Lol and they’re trying to sue Gmail for blocking them.
I wish i could block gmail’s <someuser> invited you to view a file “
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Yeah, they definitely don’t need to worry about their non-existent smart voters😂
What makes you think they are looking for smart voters?
If you read them from the bottom up, it’s like they’re from a super crazy ex.
some of those say they came directly from mr.trump himself /s
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Wow, I sure would hate to get a text from Jim Jordan.
As per Hollywood, rip out the SIM card, break into two, hurl your phone to the ground and curb stomp it thrice. That should be enough sanitization.
Jim Jordan doesn’t quit that easily.
In my country, I can just report the numbers, and the regulation agencies come down like a ton of bricks on them.
In my country, Politicians are the ones who write the law so they explicitly carved out “Political speech” as exempt in our very lax SPAM laws.
Technically I should be able to do so in mine too, but they are soo many calls from so many different numbers it doesnt work
Ah, you have an effective county in this regard. In the US, our lawmakers specifically carved out exceptions for political spam.
I’m Don Jr I’m here asking for your opinion not money $.
Should I buy 5 pounds of coke or 8… never mind I’ll just buy 12.
God damn, you should probably try to sue for that torture!
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Yes.
Damn that seems really infuriating. Where I live there’s a government program to forbid anyone to send you ads or political propaganda (and the best part is that you can report those who slip through the net!) It isn’t fool proof but it did decrease the amount of calls from people trying to sell me shit I don’t want.
