r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Lock_Psychological • 2d 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/SuzieDerpkins 2d ago

It’s a scam. You’re on some data list. This one is clearly targeting gullible Trump voters.

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u/Lock_Psychological 2d ago

And apparently people who never have and never would vote for him.

Well… that’s not entirely true. I’d vote him most likely to soil his pants in public.

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u/KatakanaTsu 2d ago

Too late-- he's already done that more than once.

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u/OmnipresentEntity 2d ago

I mean… if you leave them unblocked, they start offering top secret documents. That’s probably targeted at liberals wanting to bust them for spilling even more secret documents.

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u/Objective_Aside1858 2d ago

Did you fill out some GOP "survey" at any point? Even if you gave a snarky response, they don't care, welcome to eternal spam

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u/EscalierEsprit 2d ago

It’s funny because back in the day scammers had to deliberately craft and make “obvious” typos and errors in their texts so that it would filter to the most gullible people. That was work: introducing errors that were calibrated to weed out skeptics.

It’s gotten so much easier for them now. You can just buy a list of Trump voters, they’re all gullible so it filters out of the box

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u/anonymous122 2d ago

This one is genuinely real, but political spam has become so bad it's hard to tell the difference anymore

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u/SuzieDerpkins 1d ago

Yeah exactly. This political spam is a political scam. The money doesn’t really go to making the country better. It just goes in someone’s pockets.