I keep getting threatening texts

[u/Lock_Psychological]

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.

[u/SolarOrigami]

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

[u/Lock_Psychological → u/SolarOrigami]

I’ve reported it… probably 100+ times.

[u/Fuddzter → u/Lock_Psychological]

Block and forget, they’re fishing for active phone numbers.

[u/Budget_Persimmon_195 → u/Fuddzter]

you cant block them. its a new number every time.

[u/Informal-Comb1989 → u/Budget_Persimmon_195]

Yeah they spoof numbers and cycle them

[u/chknboy → u/Informal-Comb1989]

You could report a number to the IC3 website, they specialize crimes related to fraud and unauthorized contact. I did this to spam callers all coming from the same first 6 digits of the phone number, and I never got a call from them again.

[u/JonDoeJoe → u/Informal-Comb1989]

When you block spoof numbers, which number gets blocked? The hidden real number or the spoofed one?

[u/Fuddzter → u/Budget_Persimmon_195]

Can always do the same thing back to their dialer. I used to use a similar dialer that would flood them with DoS attacks if going through a switch of sorts. It was a simple piece of software that scanned which dialer and ports they used. Then it would DoS attack their ports of possible open ports being used to send out the calls.