American election season

“Report as junk and delete”.

Repetitive and obnoxious, but the non-cynical part of me still believes it will reduce the messages.

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I do and it doesn’t help

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- I will choose to not even sign up for a service if it requires my number unless i know for sure that the benefits I'll receive outweigh the frustrations from yet another entity who'll probably sell it or have their data breached.
  
  I've stopped even attemping to use a Voip number as almost all of them filter those out.
  
  But i get maybe 1-2 spam calls a month. and texts so rarely I couldn't estimate how often.
  
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It amazes me that fundraising texts work. But they must because otherwise why send them? I find them to be a complete turnoff to the point that I will never donate.

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I imagine they barely do at all, but also cost nothing to do anyways.

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You don’t respond to Nigerian princes either I assume, yet year after year they scam millions from millions.

We’re largely a minority of somewhat functional and capable people here.

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I see none of that. It all gets filtered to spam without intervention. I wonder why your phone doesn't.

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Do you get as many filtered to spam? I think a lot of it comes down to phone number leaks, not spam filtering (and also spam filtering on SMS is dicey, because a false positive can be very costly).

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- I do get a lot in spam. But only about 2-3 a week.
  
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idk I’ve gotten 3 since posting this. I’ve filed a complaint with the FCC (which is outdated & doesn’t really have proper categories for txts like these) and of course no luck with that.

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Yeah it's been years since I've gotten anything like this, although that may be because I never answer calls from numbers I don't recognize

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I get these all the time, too. The fun part is, I've never donated to a campaign. I just inherited them from the person who had my number before.

I try not to hold it against Rebecca. She was just standing up for what she believes in.

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I get my dad's name attached to a lot of them. He swears he didn't use my number on a poll or form or something, but I don't believe him

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I donated to Bernie Sanders' primary campaign and STILL get this shit. Their system is any candidate donations get reported to the party, and the party will disseminate your number to pollsters. Pollsters only get a few numbers to reach out to each day , and have no access so that it's impossible to just get your name of the central list which the Democratic party owns. I called these guys and spoke to them, no results. I started responding with a message telling them each text results in a Republican donation and they slowed down a lot. Only have a few from the past month. But also this is why I'm just never donating to any Democrat campaigns since Bernie's presidential bid and cannot bring myself to do so because of the torrents of spam it results in.

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I get spam calls ofc, but I have never once gotten such a text. I have also never donated to a political entity, for precisely this reason. It looks like your number got put onto a list somewhere and people are just passing it around like candy.

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I only gave Bernie $25 almost 10 years ago…which makes all this sting even more

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- Oh no, I am sorry for your loss. Yeah, Bernie is the one politician that I would expect to not sell your personal phone number, but he cannot control every single person all the way through his entire campaign staff, and it looks like someone, somewhere leaked it.:(
  
  You have been identified as someone who is "vulnerable to this form of persuasion", just b/c you gave a single damn about someone, all of once. Consent means nothing to these MFers.
  
  And somewhere early on in Trump's reign of terror, laws were changed and re-codified and staff were swapped out and also the FCC was de-funded (along with the SEC) and to make a long story short, they can get away with this crap much more easily than they could before.
  
  If it helps, the only thing I have found that is foolproof is to put the phone in "Do Not Disturb" mode permanently. That can allow exceptions for callers already in your Contacts list, often also allowing people to get through to you it if they call twice from the same number within the space of a few minutes (e.g. a hospital that would register as an unknown caller but has a legitimate purpose for such). The only other alternative would be to use a special app to try to recognize known spam callers, but that is a constant cat-and-mouse game, not only for the callers identities but also with the app itself that keeps getting its databases or codebases hacked by malicious actors, so I just use Do Not Disturb.
  
  Eventually they may give up if they have seen no activity or proper response from you, but I can virtually guarantee that that process will be measured in YEARS not days, especially this year. So: Do Not Disturb may be your only salvation:-(.
  
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get a new number, don't post it anywhere, give it out only in person

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what did hakeem jeffries feel i have to know

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C

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Stop

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Respond with stop → block and report as spam.

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That doesn’t work when they keep coming from different numbers

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What messaging service are you using? I switched to Google messages and it blocks it for me

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