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Mildly Infuriating

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  1. never signed up for anything like this,
  2. never donated to or signed up for emails from the DNC, et al.,
  3. political texts like this come all the time, and
  4. I hesitate to reply “stop” because I don’t want them to know this is a live number (is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

US politicians not making literally everything about race challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like to waste as much time as possible with them because I have no life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Actual scambaiting is the closest thing I have to religion these days

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey, it's White dudes for Harris. We're getting ready to promote Kamala Harris this November and we need your help. Our first call is this Monday at 8pm EST - will you join us?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On the one hand, thank you for being an accessibility buddy. On the other, shall we also transcribe the number and web address of my spammer, too?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

till

emails

Mildly infuriating, indeed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Reminds me how I didn’t know that ’til and till are both words until way too recently

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

"White dudes for Harris"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

Respond to nothing. Block everything.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I have a Pixel. I did not realize how bad this gets until work made me take an iPhone as my work phone. Holy hell. No amount of "Delete and report as junk" helps.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Your country is crazy.

I get maybe 3-4 spam messages a year and those are all scams, not ads, much less political ads (which I don't think would even be legal)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is the reason I dont ever see these because pixel hides these

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah google messages has pretty good automatic spam detection, you can check the spam folder and see how many are in there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Lately my Pixel cant even keep up with all of them and some are slipping through. Going into the spam folder is almost comical.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I consider myself lucky because I can't recall ever getting any messages like that from either side. Closest I've come is mail for local candidates for non-presidential office.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Sounds legit.

/s

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Every 4 years.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remarkably, yeah. I always get a little political text spam, but since early ’24 it’s been harassment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Seems more like…Harrissment

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

God damn I love my Google phone. Every once in a while I check my call logs and spam text folder to see the hundreds of calls and texts it screens for me, without any notifications. It's nice

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Call screening is honestly one of the best features to ever come to a phone. I really wish this could be added to every handset.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

It is easily the most important feature on my phone. The call screening and spam blocking is unparalleled. I don't think I have had anything blocked that shouldn't be, and it maybe messes up 5 or less times a year.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

when it started getting really bad, i started replying stop. it maybe made things a little better but i still get a fair number if these (including this one). it definitely hasn't made it any worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there a risk that the number you reply to might be a premium rate number, and replying at all might land you a big charge?

I don't get many of these types of messages, but I always just block them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'll find out. I have wondered if any of these are just scams.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've had decent luck replying with goatse with trump's face shopped in, gotten multiple 'i'm just going to unsubscribe you' messages back hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile I've actually donated and gotten zip,

Someone probably gave them your phone number

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Is there still a pro revenge Lemmy community bc I have some ideas

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Filters are your friend. If this is a text message, there are SMS apps which can filter messages by content.

I block all unknown numbers.

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