The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
I’ve got like 10 in the last week. Every single one has got an “eat my asshole” response.
Tell me you don’t understand that responding at all guarantees you are on a spammer sell list, without telling me that you don’t know that responding at all puts you on the scammers sell list.
I don’t know but he’s making it a more valuable resource. He is letting the spammers charge more for his number when they resell it since it’s verified.
Yeah. Spammers love to be told to suck a disk. Known active numbers are worth more, absolutely.
At the same time it also costs them a penny each time I send them one, might just start sending images and costing them more instead.
I’ve also worked with SMS APIs and roughly know the costs from provider to provider.
Hell, I was looking at the spam filter on Messages and accidentally opened one. It was sent as an RCS message and I was worried I’d be flagged and spammed more because of the Read receipt.
I did the same thing just a bit ago… assuming i could still forward it to VZW spam prevention team (S-P-A-M: 7726)
but alas
You should also forward each message to spam@uspis.gov (yes, you can text to email addresses) if you want to help take down the scam sites and get the numbers blocked.