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.

  • Scott
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    52 years ago

    I’ve got like 10 in the last week. Every single one has got an “eat my asshole” response.

    • @ubermeisters@lemmy.world
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      122 years ago

      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.

      • Scott
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        2 years ago

        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.

      • @SadTrain@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        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.

        • @ubermeisters@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          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

    • @stown@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      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.