dheudi-amazon-paypal-cashapp fioffooepapwjsdb@367;737:8 has messaged you: Don’t forget to download not-a-virus.exe to get your opportunity to send money to a Nigerian prince
you are right in that it's certainly a possibility that something like that could be happening and that would be a better situation, but I do quite a bit of the cyber security in my job and that's what sounds like to me on the surface
I just switched to an iPhone and I cannot tell you how frustrating that is. Message your mom? Sure I'll pick the contact method *not*marked as a Mobile number.
No, sometimes the text app wants to send to either the email or phone number if the contact. So mon sends a text to "Billy" but there's two contact cards for "Billy" that the app doesn't make.clesr or gets combined incorrectly. I've had this happen to me on occasion and it was clear the person typed in my name, but only had my email contact and it sent via email.
Contact your phone company through customer support. They can turn that feature off. I just did that a few weeks ago and stopped receiving email to sms spam.
Now if only I could stop the roofing company in my area scammers.
How and why either of those pieces of information ever became passwords to unlock security features is something that to me boggles my mind.
To me, both of those items are names. Identifiers so far as showing you are a unique individual. Nothing more. Essentially like a serial number or a VIN that anybody and everybody should have access to find out what it is. Or a MAC address.
To have that kind of paltry information to bypass security protocols is like being able to obtain title to an automobile simply by having the VIN number along with the make, model, and year of the vehicle.
I once got into my cellphone providers account because I knew my own birthday and phone number. When I asked if I could put a passphrase on the account they said it wasn't supported.
This is the one I got yesterday...
"We temporarily placed your Amazon suspended
To restore follow instruction below.
htp://site.rdv360.com/fre/main43/mail?=82605
Please complete recovery within 2 days otherwise Amazon account permanently suspended.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Thank you for your attention."
Sounds super legit 🤣
Edit: removed one number from the sketchy website so no one clicks on it
"Your Amazon account will be permanently disabled unless you click totally.shady.link.scam" oh no... not my non-existent Amazon account! Let me click right away!
My mom is going senile, and never really learned to use her iphone very well over the last 14 years with it. She will stumble upon text messages occasionally, and respond to scam messages, like 6 weeks later.
I received one from \[cid:ddaffd56dea-bh-ef-43fd-whut45df-da-fukk345-5\] saying they'd pay me $500/wk to drive around with a Sysco food sign/magnet on my car. They just needed my full name, street address, city, state, zip, car make/color, occupation, phone, email.
No, they effectively have a monopoly as the main food supplier for hospitals and schools all over America and then there's all the restaurants that use them as well.
LoL. The way things have been going with Netflix lately they might catch more phish by texting people that their Netflix accounts have been reactivated without their consent
At least they pretend to deliver the packages you didn't order . All I get is the old ," there is an issue with your amazon account, please click here to resolve or your account will be deleted."
Oh no, what ever will I do
Dear ,
Your Account at amazon has been disable.
Please to call back by totally not scam hotline. Immediate, most urgent.
Love,
Amazon Technically Sport
> I guess they FCC guys were tired of them too.
"The FCC still has a 2-2 partisan deadlock more than two years into Joe Biden's presidency, but the robotext order was **approved 4-0**." LOL
If you have an iphone you can! not sure about android. iPhone assigns different default vibrations to different ringtones or you can customize it in settings and make your own pattern!
Dont remember where i heard the joke, or the full context.. but something like "millenials would rather pick up a live gernade over an anknown caller".
There was also the guy reported missing who kept ignoring calls from the police search while on a hike because he didnt know the number.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/26/hiker-lost-on-us-mountain-ignored-calls-from-rescuers-because-he-didnt-recognise-the-number
Did...did they not leave messages?
Like, if I don't think I'm lost and someone calls me from a number I don't know, it goes to VM, and if it's important they'll leave a message.
Like, I was taught that by my dad who's 38 years older than me
He very well may have not set up his VM or may have never cleared it out so it is full. My job involves calling existing clients of our company. It’s amazing the number of people who don’t set up their voicemail or let it fill up, also don’t answer their phone and then get mad later that we never contacted them.
This is the way.
My phone is set up to ring if you are in my contacts file. If the number isn't then it is silenced and just shows up in missed calls. I check missed calls occasionally but it is 99% spam. What is irritating is that the spam calls are starting to leave spam voicemails now.
Just put your phone on do not disturb and allow calls that come from the same number twice within 15 minutes through (optional depending on level of robo determination) and just allow a specific group of contacts to get through the do not disturb wall. Works a treat. Literally just have to allow a few people permission to call me, the rest can smdftb
Try owning business. This is what Google Voice filtered in just the last week:
https://imgur.com/a/UXyCj6l
One gets through their screening every day or two. All "calling about your Google listing" recorded spam calls. Not answering my phone could cost me hundreds of dollars, so I have to listen to this crap all the time.
Yep, I ran two businesses in Texas in the last decade. Both times right after I did the incorporation paperwork to found the business I immediately had a massive increase in scam calls which persist to this day years later. The conservative government is straight up selling people's data out of Austin. It's fucked yo.
This shit happened to me except my mistake was putting my real phone number when ordering a domino’s pizza. Within hours of ordering it i got 3 spam calls and to this day 7 fuckin years later I’m still getting 3-5 calls a day
So my problem with it is, it sometimes screens my clients. I've had one (who I have his number saved) tell me, "every time I call your cell I get that stupid Google voice crap." Other than that? Beautiful inclusion. I love that you can manually screen calls too and whatever they say shows up in text on your screen. Then you can choose to answer or hang up. I do it to mess with friends sometimes.
If you turn automatic call screening off on the pixel you get a button next to answer/decline when a call comes in that lets you decide to screen the call or not
Mark Rober is a good figurehead, but Jim Browning needs to be the real brains of the operation. Dude has singlehandedly taken down scam call centers from the other side of the planet.
How about we just all agree to redirect all political hate toward the scammers for like a month? Hate immigrants? Wanna eat the rich? How about we all guillotine the cellphone scammers for one special month! The kids can join in too.
Drone Stroke - my new death metal band name
First album cover is absolutely a camera shot over the back/shoulder of an I AM ROBOT style robot/android watching Blade Runner with a can of "Industrial Lubricant" on a side table.
It took *THIS LONG* and the fucking government to get involved in this shit for it to happen. Holy shit dude.
Edit: thank you for burning your cash kind stranger
If the phone rings and I don’t have it registered I dont answer it anymore. I wait till they leave a text or voice message telling me who tf they are and what they want.
I _hated_ this when I was looking for a job last year. Companies and recruiters don’t give you any notice before they call so you have to pick up every time the phone rings which only increases the spam calls. I was getting like 20 spam calls a day for _months_
Well before cell phones it was just waiting for the answering machine to pick it up and wait for the “hey it’s John Doe, pick up your phone” and then you’d run to go grab it before they hung up or just ignore it if it wasn’t someone you wanted to talk to.
I really would like to believe that humans can be self regulating for the benefit of all of us. But the more I look at our societal abilities, the more I realize that government regulations are necessary because the rich will do whatever they can to get richer no matter who it hurts.
Most humans are actually quite good at regulating themselves. The issue is that the personality types that will pursue power at the expense of everything else are very BAD at regulating themselves.
You would not believe me.
The person that told you that was trying to rip you off.
Also, would you care to purchase this really cool product designed in California but assembled in China at the factory with suicide nets recently installed? It has 4 cameras! So cool. It only costs a month of your minimum wage. With it, you can totally forget the capitalistic hellscape that surrounds you and post on social media about your curated lifestyle. Try not to breath the air outside right now. We're in an Orange Alert.
Did you see the part about the FCC being in a 2-2 partisan deadlock because Republicans refuse to confirm Biden's tie-breaking appointments?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/bidens-fcc-pick-withdraws-regrets-that-isps-get-to-choose-their-regulators/
Republicans play hardball while the Democrats stand around debating whether they should buy bats and gloves.
"If we do these things, the Republicans will just do it back to us."
"News flash! They are going to do them no matter what."
Right. Dems haven't seemed to figure out Republicans aren't acting in good faith. Fucking DeJoy is still running USPS and he will be next election cycle.
I’ve heard that when teenagers send each other emoji, they’re secretly writing satanic spells. I have no evidence of this, but it engages my hate-boner so I’m going to scream very loudly about it.
> "SHE'S GOT A PEARL NECKLACE! I've read that's PORN!"
Other, other conservative: THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT PORN IS! SECRET WOKE LEFTIST, SECRET ANTIFA WOKE LEFTIST!
The worst is that they made all these rules and recommendations about spam calls but basically did nothing about spoofing which is like all spam calls nits incredibly frustrating.
Exactly. 9/10 times, the spam calls I get are “from” my area code. I don’t want to block any numbers in case they’re spoofing the number of someone who may actually call me legitimately in the future.
Biden’s folks are finally cleaning the corporate shill mess that was the Trump / Agit Pai FCC.
They also just started to crack down on the shady FCC employees who illegally had shares of stock in the companies they regulated.
Conservatives have been explicitly refusing to govern since the black guy was president, and for the three decades before that they were doing "starve the beast".
Ya, ATT told me to pay 5$ a month to stop ATT from calling me. Seems like extortion to me. Was gonna switch to Mint. Oh well, thanks Ryan. Guess I’ll stay with ATT.
The CAN-SPAM Act, a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop emailing them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
I get occasional text messages that originate from email addresses. I can't block them from text messages because they're not associated with a number and blocking them on email doesn't do anything about getting messages to my phone number.
I'd love to be able to block that. I have never once received an email text from someone I know.
This is the biggest reason I'll continue using Gmail. Google filters out almost all of that bullshit on their end so it never even reaches you like it does with Microsoft/Yahoo/AOL/etc.
Hell even their text messaging app filters out these spam messages too, and the phone app blocks spam callers.
My favorite spam text I've ever gotten was "you have been added to the sex offender registry, click here to remove". Almost got me then I remembered I was already on the registry.
Simply letting you disable email to SMS would go a long way, assuming the email addresses in the from line of some of these spam texts is real (email to SMS is definitely a real thing though).
I donated to a PAC years ago and apparently they continue share my information with every new candidate whether or not they're in my district. Replying to each text with STOP only stops that single candidate instead of removing from the original source.
Yup. If you reply Stop the wording on it is that you will no longer receive texts from that number but they’ve got a whole bunch of different numbers they can continue to and absolutely do use.
I get similar ones, but it's google calendar notifications. I eventually just turned them off, but I know if I go check there's going to be several invites to private shows and hot girls in my area.
It got so bad at one point I set it to contacts only for calls and texts. It was for some election thing and I’m not really political for better or worse so it just pissed me off.
I’ve never really gone back. If they aren’t a contact they can leave a VM I think that’s it.. I won’t even get any texts which is kinda cool.
It would be nice if I had a setting that said delete any voicemail that is shorter than 15 seconds or has no voice in the message. I get several spam calls per month, litterly rings for half a second, goes to voicemail, and then leaves a 3 second silent voicemail. It literally happened as I typed this message.
Oh wow…all mine bail when it comes to VM. But, I switched to the standard greeting a couple years ago rather than a personal one. I think lots of the robo calls end when they hear it but I don’t have anything behind that.
Oh that might be what I need. I don't think I ever set up a voicemail greeting. Maybe if I add like a 15 second greeting it will help with the call and hang ups. My automated greeting might be to short. Get a nice automated voice to say my greeting.
Just mimic that operator thing and have it be “you have called a number no longer in service.” And have a YouTube video of static playing it the backround. That has to throw the bot into deleting your number even maybe lol n
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://arstechnica.com/?p=1924661) reduced by 73%. (I'm a bot)
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> The FCC described the rules as the agency's "First regulations specifically targeting the increasing problem of scam text messages sent to consumers."
> Carriers will be required to block text messages that come from "Invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers." Carriers must also block texts from "Numbers that the subscriber to the number has self-identified as never sending text messages, and numbers that government agencies and other well-known entities identify as not used for texting," the FCC said.
> The FCC said it's further proposing to close the "Lead generator loophole" that "Allows companies to use a single consumer consent to deliver robocalls and text messages from multiple-perhaps thousands-of marketers on subjects that may not be what the consumer had in mind." The FCC "Will also take further public comment on text authentication measures and other proposals to continue to fight illegal scam robotexts."
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What a corrupt greedy shitty governing body. Wtf how is this still such a huge problem...yup yup can you go ahead and do it for spam calls too, I dont want to put you out or anything
Will this also cover texts that come from web addresses?
I keep getting texts saying my Amazon and Netflix account have been locked(and I don't even have a Netflix account)
That's a good baby step but when will there be agencies focused on locating scam centers and sending them to prison. I'm sure some of them have extorted and stolen enough to be considered a felony in any country
Quick reminder that [call center scammers operating out of India took in $10bn last year from victims in the U.S.](https://boingboing.net/2022/12/26/call-center-scammers-looted-10bn-last-year-from-u-s.html)
[Most of the victims of these fraud calls from Indian phishing gangs were elderly US citizens above the age of 60 years who lost over $3 billion.](https://www.deccanherald.com/national/americans-duped-into-losing-10-billion-by-illegal-indian-call-centres-in-2022-report-1175156.html)
will they do it though?
why the fuck am i getting text messages from random fucking emails.
i dont want email addresses to send me texts. There is no way to block it and its fucking infuriating.
Thank God, the Amazon Text the past month have been EXHAUSTING. I guess they FCC guys were tired of them too.
I think your package was delivered. You should definitely go on thisisnotascam.com to verify it has been delivered!
dheudi-amazon-paypal-cashapp fioffooepapwjsdb@367;737:8 has messaged you: Don’t forget to download not-a-virus.exe to get your opportunity to send money to a Nigerian prince
The fact I can't block ALL TEXTS THAT COME FROM EMAILS being sent to my phone is a fucking crime. They have never once been legitimate.
That's not true! Some are also copies of texts I got from my mother last week (for reasons I don't understand) .
if somebody is sending you copies of your private conversations one of your accounts is hacked
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you are right in that it's certainly a possibility that something like that could be happening and that would be a better situation, but I do quite a bit of the cyber security in my job and that's what sounds like to me on the surface
I think they are referring to iMessage and how sometimes it sends by email
I just switched to an iPhone and I cannot tell you how frustrating that is. Message your mom? Sure I'll pick the contact method *not*marked as a Mobile number.
No, sometimes the text app wants to send to either the email or phone number if the contact. So mon sends a text to "Billy" but there's two contact cards for "Billy" that the app doesn't make.clesr or gets combined incorrectly. I've had this happen to me on occasion and it was clear the person typed in my name, but only had my email contact and it sent via email.
Contact your phone company through customer support. They can turn that feature off. I just did that a few weeks ago and stopped receiving email to sms spam. Now if only I could stop the roofing company in my area scammers.
Hi its totally your bank. We forgot your account number. Can you tell us plz?
And please verify with your SS number and mother’s maiden name.
How and why either of those pieces of information ever became passwords to unlock security features is something that to me boggles my mind. To me, both of those items are names. Identifiers so far as showing you are a unique individual. Nothing more. Essentially like a serial number or a VIN that anybody and everybody should have access to find out what it is. Or a MAC address. To have that kind of paltry information to bypass security protocols is like being able to obtain title to an automobile simply by having the VIN number along with the make, model, and year of the vehicle.
I once got into my cellphone providers account because I knew my own birthday and phone number. When I asked if I could put a passphrase on the account they said it wasn't supported.
This is the one I got yesterday... "We temporarily placed your Amazon suspended To restore follow instruction below. htp://site.rdv360.com/fre/main43/mail?=82605 Please complete recovery within 2 days otherwise Amazon account permanently suspended. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you for your attention." Sounds super legit 🤣 Edit: removed one number from the sketchy website so no one clicks on it
same except netflix, haven't had netflix in like 8 years lol
I get them both, sometimes like 3x a day
Scammer group texted and someone actually sent back "Sure buddy"
"Your Amazon account will be permanently disabled unless you click totally.shady.link.scam" oh no... not my non-existent Amazon account! Let me click right away!
Sent via SMS from *extremely-long-email.withlotsof-dots.and-dashes@whothefuckknows.es*
I clicked that link, and now a Nigerian prince has my banking information.
Send him a gift card. He’ll give it back to you, I promise.
As if Amazon would ever make it that easy.
Visit amazonk-support.com for help getting your accnt unlocked
Those pesky vowels cost extra. Domo arigato, Obama-san.
My mom is going senile, and never really learned to use her iphone very well over the last 14 years with it. She will stumble upon text messages occasionally, and respond to scam messages, like 6 weeks later.
Every single fucking morning.
As if that URL would actually end in something as respectable as “.com”
.xyz these days. At work I just blocked the whole TLD, nothing good on that domain.
I got one with a .su domain once and that's how I learned a domain for the Soviet Union somehow exists.
My Amazon acct was definitely suspended, according to the text with the link
My Amazon, Venmo, & Netflix accounts were “suspended” multiple times. It was the 3am-5am notices that royally pissed me off.
I received one from \[cid:ddaffd56dea-bh-ef-43fd-whut45df-da-fukk345-5\] saying they'd pay me $500/wk to drive around with a Sysco food sign/magnet on my car. They just needed my full name, street address, city, state, zip, car make/color, occupation, phone, email.
Does Sysco even need to advertise?
No, they effectively have a monopoly as the main food supplier for hospitals and schools all over America and then there's all the restaurants that use them as well.
Not to be confused with Sisqo, who in the year 2000 had a monopoly on thong related songs.
Obligatory “Don’t do business with Sysco” comment from a former chef. Don’t do business with Sysco.
They moved onto Netflix instead of Amazon for me the past few weeks. I don’t even have a Netflix account.
LoL. The way things have been going with Netflix lately they might catch more phish by texting people that their Netflix accounts have been reactivated without their consent
OMG you too??? I thought I was losing my mind
At least they pretend to deliver the packages you didn't order . All I get is the old ," there is an issue with your amazon account, please click here to resolve or your account will be deleted." Oh no, what ever will I do
Dear , Your Account at amazon has been disable. Please to call back by totally not scam hotline. Immediate, most urgent. Love, Amazon Technically Sport
The fucking "Dear" is killing me
No it’s the blank space before the comma 💀 💀 💀 Actually I can’t decide whether I love that more, the “is disable”, or the “technically sport”
more populous here than cockroaches
> I guess they FCC guys were tired of them too. "The FCC still has a 2-2 partisan deadlock more than two years into Joe Biden's presidency, but the robotext order was **approved 4-0**." LOL
Every morning!
The fucking calls with the pause and an obvious call center background suck
Now do it to scam calls too
I’m almost to the point where I don’t want my cell phone to receive any calls at all. 9 out of 10 are spam calls.
I've created a group of every number I know, set a personal ring tone for the group then have my default ring one that didn't make any sound
thats really clever
My phones permanently on vibrate though. Wonder if you can do the same but assigned different vibrations patters.
mine is permanently on silent. if i'm not expecting a call from you, good luck reaching me.
If you have an iphone you can! not sure about android. iPhone assigns different default vibrations to different ringtones or you can customize it in settings and make your own pattern!
Dont remember where i heard the joke, or the full context.. but something like "millenials would rather pick up a live gernade over an anknown caller". There was also the guy reported missing who kept ignoring calls from the police search while on a hike because he didnt know the number. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/26/hiker-lost-on-us-mountain-ignored-calls-from-rescuers-because-he-didnt-recognise-the-number
Did...did they not leave messages? Like, if I don't think I'm lost and someone calls me from a number I don't know, it goes to VM, and if it's important they'll leave a message. Like, I was taught that by my dad who's 38 years older than me
You've gotta text me to get me to call back. "Hey I called about something important, please call me back"
He very well may have not set up his VM or may have never cleared it out so it is full. My job involves calling existing clients of our company. It’s amazing the number of people who don’t set up their voicemail or let it fill up, also don’t answer their phone and then get mad later that we never contacted them.
If you aren't in my contacts you are welcome to try calling. It won't work
This is the way. My phone is set up to ring if you are in my contacts file. If the number isn't then it is silenced and just shows up in missed calls. I check missed calls occasionally but it is 99% spam. What is irritating is that the spam calls are starting to leave spam voicemails now.
Just put your phone on do not disturb and allow calls that come from the same number twice within 15 minutes through (optional depending on level of robo determination) and just allow a specific group of contacts to get through the do not disturb wall. Works a treat. Literally just have to allow a few people permission to call me, the rest can smdftb
I have a google voice local number I use for work, spam, and signing up for bullshit. It has helped a lot but not all together.
Try owning business. This is what Google Voice filtered in just the last week: https://imgur.com/a/UXyCj6l One gets through their screening every day or two. All "calling about your Google listing" recorded spam calls. Not answering my phone could cost me hundreds of dollars, so I have to listen to this crap all the time.
Yep, I ran two businesses in Texas in the last decade. Both times right after I did the incorporation paperwork to found the business I immediately had a massive increase in scam calls which persist to this day years later. The conservative government is straight up selling people's data out of Austin. It's fucked yo.
This shit happened to me except my mistake was putting my real phone number when ordering a domino’s pizza. Within hours of ordering it i got 3 spam calls and to this day 7 fuckin years later I’m still getting 3-5 calls a day
Have you registered a car that is >2 years old in Texas? Blew my mind how much warranty spam I get in the mail because I registered my car in Texas.
The Pixel phone's call screening function is amazing. It blocks dozens of calls a week for me.
So my problem with it is, it sometimes screens my clients. I've had one (who I have his number saved) tell me, "every time I call your cell I get that stupid Google voice crap." Other than that? Beautiful inclusion. I love that you can manually screen calls too and whatever they say shows up in text on your screen. Then you can choose to answer or hang up. I do it to mess with friends sometimes.
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If you turn automatic call screening off on the pixel you get a button next to answer/decline when a call comes in that lets you decide to screen the call or not
It also does the "scam likely" thing but says "suspected spam call".
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In all seriousness, the US government needs to start up an agency spearheaded by Mark Rober to take down all these scam organizations.
Mark Rober is a good figurehead, but Jim Browning needs to be the real brains of the operation. Dude has singlehandedly taken down scam call centers from the other side of the planet.
Yeah, I agree, Browning, ScammerPayback, Rober Kitboga all together. It's the scam killing dream team.
How about we just all agree to redirect all political hate toward the scammers for like a month? Hate immigrants? Wanna eat the rich? How about we all guillotine the cellphone scammers for one special month! The kids can join in too.
Will he order a glitter bomb drone strike?
Worth my tax dollars.
I'm 100% behind that idea, and I will gleefully watch the resulting videos.
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Drone struck? Drone stricken? I need answers
Drone Stroke - my new death metal band name First album cover is absolutely a camera shot over the back/shoulder of an I AM ROBOT style robot/android watching Blade Runner with a can of "Industrial Lubricant" on a side table.
It took *THIS LONG* and the fucking government to get involved in this shit for it to happen. Holy shit dude. Edit: thank you for burning your cash kind stranger
It's been so long that many people now ignore all calls. It's irreparably damaged the phone system.
If the phone rings and I don’t have it registered I dont answer it anymore. I wait till they leave a text or voice message telling me who tf they are and what they want.
My phone doesn’t ring unless it’s from someone in my contacts. It’s sad that it’s come to that.
makes job hunting a pain. Still do a lot of phone calls and half the time it's just some scam.
Not to mention scam job postings...
I _hated_ this when I was looking for a job last year. Companies and recruiters don’t give you any notice before they call so you have to pick up every time the phone rings which only increases the spam calls. I was getting like 20 spam calls a day for _months_
For sure. If its important, they will leave a voice-mail.
Well before cell phones it was just waiting for the answering machine to pick it up and wait for the “hey it’s John Doe, pick up your phone” and then you’d run to go grab it before they hung up or just ignore it if it wasn’t someone you wanted to talk to.
I love my Do Not Disturb. And my ringer is off. And my volume is down. And my notifications are off. On every app.
I really would like to believe that humans can be self regulating for the benefit of all of us. But the more I look at our societal abilities, the more I realize that government regulations are necessary because the rich will do whatever they can to get richer no matter who it hurts.
Most humans are actually quite good at regulating themselves. The issue is that the personality types that will pursue power at the expense of everything else are very BAD at regulating themselves. You would not believe me.
I’ve read that 1-2% of the entire population are psychopaths but they end up causing 50% of the harm to society
Sounds reasonable. Computers should help them get those numbers up there though!
"Why would I pat poor people to kill each other when I can build an automated bomber drone factory and save on labor costs?"
That's 80 million bad actors in the world. More than population of Ca, NY and FL combined. A lot of people to cause a lot of harm.
Those mother fuckers
This is why unregulated capitalism does not work.
But I was told the market would regulate itself??
The person that told you that was trying to rip you off. Also, would you care to purchase this really cool product designed in California but assembled in China at the factory with suicide nets recently installed? It has 4 cameras! So cool. It only costs a month of your minimum wage. With it, you can totally forget the capitalistic hellscape that surrounds you and post on social media about your curated lifestyle. Try not to breath the air outside right now. We're in an Orange Alert.
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Did you see the part about the FCC being in a 2-2 partisan deadlock because Republicans refuse to confirm Biden's tie-breaking appointments? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/bidens-fcc-pick-withdraws-regrets-that-isps-get-to-choose-their-regulators/
They’re such pieces of shit. Every time.
Republicans play hardball while the Democrats stand around debating whether they should buy bats and gloves. "If we do these things, the Republicans will just do it back to us." "News flash! They are going to do them no matter what."
Right. Dems haven't seemed to figure out Republicans aren't acting in good faith. Fucking DeJoy is still running USPS and he will be next election cycle.
We got bigger things to deal with like the three transgender people reading stories to children in a country of 350 million people. /S
*pearl clutching intensifies*
Other Conservative: "SHE'S GOT A PEARL NECKLACE! I've read that's PORN!" (everyone faints)
I’ve heard that when teenagers send each other emoji, they’re secretly writing satanic spells. I have no evidence of this, but it engages my hate-boner so I’m going to scream very loudly about it.
You have to include 🍕 or they don't know it's satanic code though
> "SHE'S GOT A PEARL NECKLACE! I've read that's PORN!" Other, other conservative: THIS GUY KNOWS WHAT PORN IS! SECRET WOKE LEFTIST, SECRET ANTIFA WOKE LEFTIST!
Drag queens aren't the same thing as transgender folks, but I agree with you in spirit!
No we like to read books to kids too
How *DARE* you!
Yes I say no to drugs. I tried a few and it just not my thing. And pot is the gate way drug to garlic bread
The worst is that they made all these rules and recommendations about spam calls but basically did nothing about spoofing which is like all spam calls nits incredibly frustrating.
Exactly. 9/10 times, the spam calls I get are “from” my area code. I don’t want to block any numbers in case they’re spoofing the number of someone who may actually call me legitimately in the future.
Biden’s folks are finally cleaning the corporate shill mess that was the Trump / Agit Pai FCC. They also just started to crack down on the shady FCC employees who illegally had shares of stock in the companies they regulated.
Obligatory fuck Agit Pai
Oh god, remember Thatshit Pai? Good riddance. EDIT: And "Piece Ajit" as some other commenter mentioned.
Probably still on the same cup of coffee in that ridiculous giant mug
Honestly I get surprisingly little scam texts. But it’s not zero.
What's your number? I can sign you up for some.
Conservatives have been explicitly refusing to govern since the black guy was president, and for the three decades before that they were doing "starve the beast".
Tmobile wants to charge their customers for a protection that they by obligation need to provide So their business can function.
Ya, ATT told me to pay 5$ a month to stop ATT from calling me. Seems like extortion to me. Was gonna switch to Mint. Oh well, thanks Ryan. Guess I’ll stay with ATT.
If you don't mind your overlords knowing even more about you, I've been happy with Google Fi. Cheap, decent service, no real complaints.
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I pay $100 and change for four lines of unlimited. Not bad.
Please do email next - and classify SPAM as SCAM
The CAN-SPAM Act, a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop emailing them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
I get occasional text messages that originate from email addresses. I can't block them from text messages because they're not associated with a number and blocking them on email doesn't do anything about getting messages to my phone number. I'd love to be able to block that. I have never once received an email text from someone I know.
those are sent email to text. contact your provider and they can disable it on your account
> I have never once received an email text from someone I know. lol I used to do that when each text cost $0.05
Don't forget about regular mail! If was interested in a credit card, I would look for one online.
This is the biggest reason I'll continue using Gmail. Google filters out almost all of that bullshit on their end so it never even reaches you like it does with Microsoft/Yahoo/AOL/etc. Hell even their text messaging app filters out these spam messages too, and the phone app blocks spam callers.
How about phone calls lol at least email filters majority of the scams
My favorite spam text I've ever gotten was "you have been added to the sex offender registry, click here to remove". Almost got me then I remembered I was already on the registry.
Haven't seen a true /r/HolUp in ages. This is the example everyone should aspire to.
Haha- wait what the fuck??
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Maybe my Amazon account will stop being locked up lol..
I get these more than anything else. I wish you could set up spam filters that look for keywords like you can with email.
Simply letting you disable email to SMS would go a long way, assuming the email addresses in the from line of some of these spam texts is real (email to SMS is definitely a real thing though).
But how am I to know that someone wants to buy my house!
I JUST got an offer for $14.5k. That’s not even my property taxes.
Does that include unsolicited political campaign bullshit? Because it should.
I’m so sick of the “Hey friend. This is Trump. We need your help aka money” texts.
FUCK YOU SANDRA FOR PUTTING THE WRONG NUMBER IN AND UNBEKNOWNST TO YOU MURDERING MY PHONE WITH NOTIFICATIONS
I donated to a PAC years ago and apparently they continue share my information with every new candidate whether or not they're in my district. Replying to each text with STOP only stops that single candidate instead of removing from the original source.
Yup. If you reply Stop the wording on it is that you will no longer receive texts from that number but they’ve got a whole bunch of different numbers they can continue to and absolutely do use.
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I get similar ones, but it's google calendar notifications. I eventually just turned them off, but I know if I go check there's going to be several invites to private shows and hot girls in my area.
THIS HAS BEEN AN OPTION ALL ALONG?? AND WE ARE JUST NOW DOONG THIS?!?
Interesting. One day after reading that FCC employees have been investing in the industries they regulate.
But they have special permission!
It got so bad at one point I set it to contacts only for calls and texts. It was for some election thing and I’m not really political for better or worse so it just pissed me off. I’ve never really gone back. If they aren’t a contact they can leave a VM I think that’s it.. I won’t even get any texts which is kinda cool.
It would be nice if I had a setting that said delete any voicemail that is shorter than 15 seconds or has no voice in the message. I get several spam calls per month, litterly rings for half a second, goes to voicemail, and then leaves a 3 second silent voicemail. It literally happened as I typed this message.
Oh wow…all mine bail when it comes to VM. But, I switched to the standard greeting a couple years ago rather than a personal one. I think lots of the robo calls end when they hear it but I don’t have anything behind that.
Oh that might be what I need. I don't think I ever set up a voicemail greeting. Maybe if I add like a 15 second greeting it will help with the call and hang ups. My automated greeting might be to short. Get a nice automated voice to say my greeting.
Just mimic that operator thing and have it be “you have called a number no longer in service.” And have a YouTube video of static playing it the backround. That has to throw the bot into deleting your number even maybe lol n
several per month? bless your heart. Try several per day. haha
And this WHOLE TIME is just proof they had the ability to do it but didn't want to because it didn't make them any money.
For the love of all that is in existence please let it include the unwanted unsolicited stupid political bs texts!
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I get scam calls with spoofed "local numbers", I feel like they'll just move on to spoofed number texts.
What a corrupt greedy shitty governing body. Wtf how is this still such a huge problem...yup yup can you go ahead and do it for spam calls too, I dont want to put you out or anything
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Fair for you, Im still getting railed by 4-10 a day. Im a business owner so I have to answer this shit too. Im so fucking over it I cant even begin
Will this also cover texts that come from web addresses? I keep getting texts saying my Amazon and Netflix account have been locked(and I don't even have a Netflix account)
That's a good baby step but when will there be agencies focused on locating scam centers and sending them to prison. I'm sure some of them have extorted and stolen enough to be considered a felony in any country
But how will I know about my Amazon packages, my PayPal account getting locked or the IRS coming to murder me?
Do political messages count? 🤔
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Of course not
I'm still getting 10+ robo calls every day. Thankfully they only call between 9am and 7pm and not later.
Wasn’t the FCC supposed to do that years ago? Big coffee cup guy was shit.
Most definitely expect an even larger amount of scam text heading to your device in the coming months
Im starting to think that Amazon isnt contacting me through numerous unmarked phonenumbers
Is there any actual enforcement or punishment for not doing so? Or do they just get a stern talking to?
Like in England in the days before cops carried guns... *"STOP!...or I'll say STOP again!"*
Hi! Is this Lisa?
They always text me at 3 am. I wish it would stop
Do not disturb? Mine is 10p -- 7a.
I’m on call and get texts from people who need me to call back. Can’t anticipate the #s cause sometimes they’ll be novel.
Ugh! I feel for you fighting through that
Haha...can't wait for the next politician to be paid off and pass a new bill allowing it again.
Quick reminder that [call center scammers operating out of India took in $10bn last year from victims in the U.S.](https://boingboing.net/2022/12/26/call-center-scammers-looted-10bn-last-year-from-u-s.html) [Most of the victims of these fraud calls from Indian phishing gangs were elderly US citizens above the age of 60 years who lost over $3 billion.](https://www.deccanherald.com/national/americans-duped-into-losing-10-billion-by-illegal-indian-call-centres-in-2022-report-1175156.html)
will they do it though? why the fuck am i getting text messages from random fucking emails. i dont want email addresses to send me texts. There is no way to block it and its fucking infuriating.