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Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?

  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 I hesitate to reply “stop” because I don’t want them to know this is a live number (is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?)
corsicanguppy ,

till

emails

Mildly infuriating, indeed.

possiblylinux127 ,

“White dudes for Harris”

JackiesFridge ,
@JackiesFridge@lemmy.world avatar

Respond to nothing. Block everything.

TheGiantKorean ,
@TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Marketsupreme ,

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

LogicalDrivel ,
@LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz avatar

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

AceFuzzLord ,

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.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Sounds legit.

/s

eramseth ,

Every 4 years.

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lars OP ,

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

Nurse_Robot ,

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

BassTurd ,

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.

blackbrook ,

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.

Passerby6497 ,

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.

PhlubbaDubba ,

Meanwhile I’ve actually donated and gotten zip,

Someone probably gave them your phone number

lars OP ,

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/2abdf92c-a44f-4c9c-a2c4-c81f4c30ce8d.png

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

BearOfaTime ,

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.

PaupersSerenade ,
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c09219e3-d95c-4465-9cc5-706a9f769b88.jpegGot 9 in one day. If they include a name it’s never mine

SendMePhotos ,

Use their numbers to sign up for stuff

Korne127 ,
@Korne127@lemmy.world avatar

What the fuck… how can people in the US live with something like that? And how does this not massively hurt her chances?!

MajorHavoc ,

how can people in the US live with something like that?

We’ve had a number of deeply corrupt individuals in charge of our federal department means to police this sort of thing.

And how does this not massively hurt her chances?!

Even odds are that it’s meant to.

lars OP ,

Omg this is essentially me too. I just waited to lose my patience until this White Guys incident.

LesserAbe ,

My wife gets a ton of political texts intended for me. Best I can tell is because her cell phone number is under my name with T-Mobile. (Used to be a Sprint account before the merger) I’ve never used her number to sign up for anything under my name. So it would seem either Sprint sold it or an employee leaked it or something.

I have a Google voice number and pretty much don’t get political texts. The Google voice number rings a T-Mobile prepaid phone, that number doesn’t get political texts either.

thesmokingman ,

A few different things contribute to this and, unfortunately, there’s very little you can do to fix it. I’ve spent (wasted) a ton of time trying to prevent it on my end.

  1. If you used your phone number on your voter registration, reregister immediately without your phone number. This is public information and it’s where these things start.
  2. Find contact info for your local, county, and state parties. All sides. Call them up and ask that your information be removed from their database(s). You might have to escalate a bit because usually phone bankers don’t know how to do it or don’t understand why you want privacy. Worst case scenario you can pull out a sob story about an abusive ex and how your information isn’t supposed to be public at all. That will usually get your shit pulled.
  3. While you’re on those calls, try to find out where they either send or pull their data from. Next go there and do step 2 again.
  4. Repeat step 3 as many times as it takes.

However, individual candidates who may have received a copy of your data or canvassed you might not get the notice. Eventually their copies of your data might get leaked. You have no control over this and no recourse. I know this from personal experience. Through a unique mixup with a name, I have slowly watched my data go from politician to politician to now general spam. It’s not coming from data brokers because the only place the mixup happened was with political data.

Best of all, the FTC doesn’t give a shit. If someone “manually” sends you a political text, it doesn’t require prior consent. The “manual” setup for this is a bunch of VoIP shit that doesn’t actually go back to a real human ever and is about as “manual” as the fully automated assembly lines from How It’s Made where a human is standing nearby with a clip board saying “yup that’s a widget.”

YurkshireLad ,

I keep getting emails from some republican Colorado group and I don’t even live in the US!

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