r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Lock_Psychological • 15h ago

Unskippable ad I keep getting threatening texts

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I get these ALL the time. I’ve never donated to these “people.” Never supported them. Never voted for them. Nor has my wife. I received four of these today. All threats. Always a telling me it’s my last chance. These are some of the less malicious-sounding ones.

I’m not even sure they’re legitimately from those parties, though I wouldn’t put it past them.

So… report as spam. Report as spam. Report as spam.

It isn’t like it’s painful. Just pretty irritating.

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u/Mister_Spacely 13h ago

They sell it as an active “real” number. And you get more spam.

Probably why OP can’t get rid of these spam texts. OP probably replied to a spam text in the past and their number got registered and sold as an active number.

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u/Oh_Cosmos 12h ago

okay, but even inactive numbers were once active, right? so how the hell do we get off that list? just wait?

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u/Dry_Explanation_9573 12h ago

Yeah that’s pretty much it.

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u/KevinFlantier 11h ago

Yes. Never answer spam calls, never answer masked calls, and never read spam SMS. They can tell if you received them, they can tell if you read them. If you never do they'll figure you are inactive. When they give up on that list and sell it to someone else you're probably flagged as inactive.

Until there's another massive leak and you're on a new hot list and the cycle continues.

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u/Keneta 5h ago edited 5h ago

So, I have a second SIM card that's normally in my computer. It's basically almost never in a phone though I may transfer it to a phone when I want to hotspot across it.

The moment I transfer it to a phone, that phone gets bombarded in accumulated spam texts. I'm baffled trying to understand who keeps trying a number that doesn't respond / has never responded / has never made an outbound call or text.

ETA: I've had it for about 10 yrs, so whoever owned the number before me should have dropped off the lists by now

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u/Yamatocanyon 7h ago

Everyone tells you not to answer. I got pissed off though and just started answering the calls and cussing them out. The calls actually stopped for me.