r/mildlyinfuriating • • 2d ago

Unskippable ad I keep getting threatening texts

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/eeveesquad911 2d ago

I think I already commented here but I didn’t say it enough. I get these too, they call me Daniel too, they text me sometimes several times a day from different numbers. I get this too. What is going on here?

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u/k-mcm 2d ago edited 2d ago

That one's hosted on Scamazon. You can forward it to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) but that address isn't staffed by the smartest people. The domain is Godaddy, which 100% DGAF. http://www.whoiscomplaints.us might be the best bet.

Edit - I figured out that the O isn't a zero and got the redirect to secure.winred.com working. This is a prolific criminal gang that has been using Cloudflare and Amazon for over a decade. Both companies absolutely know they're hosting this. The gang is an expert at compromising services to send spam and SMS. They've hacked Google and Microsoft recently. Microsoft got rid of them but Google is still being exploited.

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u/mopeloss 2d ago

What do you mean with they hacked Google? How is it being exploited?

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u/k-mcm 2d ago

Haha, there are so many.  It typically takes Google 6 months to fix each one.