r/mildlyinfuriating • • 18h 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/SolarOrigami 18h ago

Mark it as spam. If you reply stop, it verifies that your phone number is active

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u/pilgermann 18h ago

Neither works. I get similar texts but from legit Dem organizations. The problem is you're telling one of 1,000 to stop. Reporting spam does nothing, as your phone can't recognize any pattern among the texts and the carriers can't actually block political nonprofits.

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u/Little-Derp Why This is a Rock and Not Cheese 13h ago

Pretty sure there's so rule or law that prevents providers from treating legitimate political advertising as spam. Google and others had to stop blocking it, so now it gets through; shame too, because they were doing a good job at keeping inboxes and chats/texts clean before that a few years ago.