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
google pixel user?
Yes.
So who loves you that you blocked and deleted their number? Lol.
Four dots for an ellipsis? What a monster!
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Someone out there is hurting bad after expressing themselves.
Jose
Si senor
“I will always love you…”
Literal stalkers. Fucking creepy.
Whitney Houston: Excuse me?
Reminds me of messages pornstars send “you”.
hey baby, I made this just for youuuuuu.
$9.95
I wish I had the talent to draw Sexy Nurse Napoleon 😄
I don’t have the talent, so this is the best I can come up with [without breaking any rules]:
I too wish you had that talent so I could witness your glory
I want a sexy napoleon disguise.
Is this legal?
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.
The Dems do this too. Certainly discouraged me from making donations.
I was thinking there’s no way only one side is doing this.
Then you got poor Whitney Houston near the bottom
Dolly Parton?
“We both know that I’m not what you neeeeeed…”
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 “
Grifters gonna grift. They want that sweet sweet donation money.
If you have an iPhone, search for your cell provider by name. Many offer free sms spam blocker apps, like T-mobile’s “Scam Shield”.
You can also log into your carrier’s website to see if there are any free spam blocking features there.
Sounds like Gym Jordan’s team was wrong to think they could count on you!
That’s a typo of the cleverest variety considering the millions of human-hours of misery and self harm that occurred after
- hundreds of athletes were sexually abused at the school where he was a wrestling coach and
- Jordan became aware of the abuse, and even worse than saying nothing, he also begged victims and their families to deny it as well
Not a typo, I’m deliberately referring to exactly those crimes of his.
referring to exactly those crimes
Thank you for your service.
Next time someone complains about cancel culture, let’s all remember to enlighten them about Gym fucking Jordan, whose ethical bankruptcy has gone unpunished and almost seems forgotten.
I’m also rather fond of the nickname Dim Moran
Someone definitely signed you up. For lots of things.
I did that to a friend in college once, but signed her (as if I was her) up for 3 or 4 dozen different religious colleges and organizations, asking them to snail mail her information. Years later she found out it was me and said “I’M STILL GETTING THIS (#&%^@ IN THE MAIL!!!”
Is this not illegal in your country?
Perhaps you could contact some of the politicians sending you these texts and ask them what they’re going to do to make it illegal?
Here’s the fun part- it’s illegal to do that if you put yourself on the national do not call list, BUT- political spam calls and texts are exempt. Something tells me our politicians don’t want that to change.
What did you put your phone number on? Holy shit. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
If you read them from the bottom up, it’s like they’re from a super crazy ex.
Digging into the FCC’s website reveals that robotexts are illegal without prior consent. However, if they hand enter the message, that’s legal.
That lines up with my experience the one time I kept getting annoying political texts. There was a human at the other end. They happily removed my number from their list after I threatened to vote for the other team if they kept harassing me. But that was the Democrats.
You can try some of the FCC’s recommendations, but I would generally assume malice in this instance. The political entities will probably disappear before anything can be done.
Report Unwanted Calls and Texts
If you think you’ve received a political robocall or text that does not comply with the FCC’s rules, you can file an informal complaint with the FCC at fcc.gov/complaints. If you are receiving texts that you didn’t ask for, report the sender by forwarding the texts to 7726 (or “SPAM”). Campaigns should also honor opt-out requests if you reply “STOP.”
Does it work if it’s always a new number? Nikki Haley sends me one a day. Most of them have some shady link to donate or get free shirts so it’s definitely some scam either way
For reporting them, probably not. For trying to opt-out with a STOP reply, depends on them playing by the rules. Do you think they will play by the rules? I don’t. I would assume malice. That they would forward your number to a bunch of other lists. You might not get Nikki’s spam, but you’ll get spam from 3 other PACs that are only 2 months old.
Sounds like she’s down bad
Replying to spam is usually just a way to confirm that the victim is a “life” one.
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.
