• moldyringwald@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I worked in sales at a honda dealership for about six months. On slow days we had to sit there making cold calls and blasting out texts and emails and I remember the first week after training they gave me like 1600 “dormant leads” which were essentially people who were rejected from finance companies the last time they were at the dealership or people who already flipped out about getting all the calls and texts and literally even people who unsubscribed from all communications or were on the national do not call list. Hundreds of previous employees were on the dormant lists too just so the new guys had people to practice on. Car dealerships are so greasy

  • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t mean nothing, it confirms your number is real and in use, thus increasing the value when they sell it.

  • Vent@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I set up automated texts a while ago and IIRC they must comply with the keywords STOP and HELP, otherwise they can get in big trouble with the carriers.

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      1 year ago

      Not sure what scenarios are exceptions to that. Like, you wouldn’t want to get locked out of an account just because you said STOP to your 2fa codes.

  • OpenStars@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Wolf asks “can I come in?”

    Piglet says “no!”

    Wolf now knows it’s worth busting down the heavy door…yummy.