r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Lock_Psychological • 19d 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/Beautiful-Affect1930 19d ago
JD Vance has got to be the least threatening person I know.
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u/Microwavedstrawberry 19d ago
He looks like he would have frightened 8 year old me but not because he looks as though he'd hit me,he looks like he'd do other things
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u/sweatboxy 19d ago
That’s why he’s so dangerous. He’ll do or say anything to get what he wants while looking and sounding like a kindergarten bully.
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u/amazingkillerlemon 19d ago
I like how you tried to censor the name to avoid doxxing the Vice President of the United States
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u/AggravatingRow7018 19d ago edited 19d ago
You better be careful jd is going to have his way with your couch.
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
Dammit. It’s a leather couch. Black leather.
Maybe just burn it now.
If I can’t have it, he can’t… “have” (🤮) it either.
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u/Algaroth 19d ago
I wonder if he consumes interracial couch porn... Like black and white cushions together and stuff.
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not ai by the way
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u/ThePonzzz 19d ago
Can confirm, I was shitting in the stall on the other side.
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u/Original_Ad_4471 19d ago
Mhm, I walked in and used the urinal when that was happening
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u/pixeltweaker 19d ago
Voter intimidation is a felony.
Report it.
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
Oh… I’m sure they’ll claim they were just giving me one last chance to send them money.
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u/Suspicious-Coach-644 19d ago
They can claim it sure but threatening language to secure votes is still a felony.
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
True, but…
1. For all I know it isn’t really them. Just some other scammers.
2. If it’s them, they’ll hide behind equivocation.
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u/No_Ocelot_2285 19d ago
The reason they don’t get in trouble is because people like you and me let them. Start with something simple like this, and then find the next thing you can do, and then the next.
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u/IndustriousFerret 19d ago
I scrolled down the list of lawsuits against him the other day and felt so defeated. People are trying.
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u/OmnipresentEntity 19d ago
These are very, very transparently not from the actual parties. None of them are.
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u/flamingdonkey 19d ago
Lol, you say that as if the laws still apply to politicians.
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u/Jets237 19d ago edited 19d ago
I signed up for his email list during the last campaign because I wanted to know what he says to his cult followers.
This from a 24h period
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u/Prestigious-Yam2281 19d ago
Thats like signing up to have your own manipulative stalker
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u/the_dragons_tale 19d ago
Is this why they believe that tagging him on Social Media will get them anywhere? Because the mails read like he wrote them personally?
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u/sawdustontheshore 19d ago
Actually this does explain this phenomenon a little bit. I’m just watching from up north as a Canadian. But I always found it curious how many of MAGA write posts and messages him to him directly where I feel like I haven’t seen it before.
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u/Deemaunik 19d ago
They speak to their followers like it's a fuckin' cult because it is a fuckin' cult.
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u/uknow_es_me 19d ago
"Daddy's home and he's pissed" That's how members of one of the three separate but coequal branches of our government talk about the president
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u/rkgk13 19d ago
They write emails like that because they're preying upon people with dementia.
I wish I was joking.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/10/politics/political-fundraising-elderly-election-invs-dg/
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u/DJK695 19d ago
100%, just mentioned my 90 year old grandmother getting fed up with these but still can't remove herself for some reason.
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u/TheBigK30026 19d ago
I feel this trump email list is worse than debt collectors (and I know what it's like to deal with those fuckers)
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u/realmofconfusion 19d ago
And the MAGA morons who get those emails all fervently believe that President Trump himself has personally typed out an email just to them (because they’re special).
It’s like these idiots never heard of mail merge before.
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u/-fin_0 19d ago
Wow, is this real or satire?
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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 19d ago
Absolutely real. They have drained the bank accounts of his supporters with constant threats like this since 2016. Terrible for their mental health and grasp on reality as well.
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u/Brave_Maybe_2891 19d ago
My wife is one of the people that bought a ticket to his rally so his supporters couldn't get a seat and she got texts like this for a few months until she blocked them. They were usually claiming that she was personally selected by Trump or she was in a small group personally selected by Trump. They would claim that he had a personal message just for her from Trump if she donated a few bucks.
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u/Itchy_Tumbleweed_417 19d ago
Oh it’s totally real. Do you remember when TikTok ruined one of his rallies by signing up for a ticket and then not going?
I don’t remember if I was part of that or the very next one, all I know is he was supposed to have a rally about an hour from me so I got a ticket, planning not to go, and he ended up canceling because of the weather. It was a perfect 70° day.
Anyway I don’t remember how many years ago that was but I still get emails from him and my inbox that I used for spam stuff looks exactly like that
They stopped texting me after I started replying to the text about the Epstein files. Human beings actually get those replies so I guess they figured they should unsubscribe me since me trying wasn’t working.
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u/jackmusick 19d ago
Man I thought the democrats ones were annoying. I should’ve known these would be 100 times worse.
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u/NEOscav9 19d ago
That doesn't even sound legit either, that reads like a scam 😂
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
But it resolved to their legit fund raising site. Checked it.
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u/TougherOnSquids 19d ago
So, still a scam.
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
Eeeeeexactly. But remember we’re all gonna get like $5,000!!! Of… our own money… that we’ll never actually get…
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u/kingjevin RED 19d ago
Both links are different, and you clicked on it? Might be the dumbest thing I have heard. People can spoof websites and make it look the same. Doesn’t mean it’s legit.
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u/I_Heart_Sleeping_ 19d ago
Apparently some MAGA lady named Patricia somehow gave my number to these losers and I get about 20-40 of these a week. I’m not kidding.
They are always so threatening. I wish I saved the last one I got but it was something like this.
“PRESIDENT TRUMP knows you haven’t responded and he is making a list. Respond now and match the donations of other FREEDOM fighters in your area or stay on the list FOREVER.
YOU do not want to be on the wrong side of HISTORY when 2028 comes.”
It’s always so weird that they capitalize random letters like it adds some sort of urgency to the threats.
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u/PatricksMustache 19d ago
My father gets 15-20 of these texts per DAY, but it's his own fault for responding to/donating to various "Republican candidates" (via the candidate website links in the emails they sent him, and his credit card info was *somehow* stolen six months later). The bigger problem is that he's finally so fed up with it he just leaves his phone on the night stand and on silent all the time now. So not only is it hard to get him when he's at home in the living room watching his Fox News, we have no way of finding out or finding/tracking him if his 84-year-old ass leaves the house somewhere and something happens.
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u/Intrepid-Product-367 19d ago
J. Vance. No, that's too obvious. JD V.
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u/PissContest 19d ago
Idk this works for me plus I’m not even in Ohio
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u/Substantial-Sea-3672 19d ago
I’m in Ohio but I don’t get these.
I do get tons of anti-Talarico texts though.
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u/mittenknittin 19d ago
I joined a political messaging session once a few years ago. (I forget what cause exactly, it was either reproductive rights or voting rights in Michigan.) There were a handful of us on a Zoom call; we ran a messaging app that used a VOIP phone number, and texted a template message en masse to our lists, about 20 at a time. We then monitored the replies for a time so we could talk back live to anyone who answered immediately.
We had been instructed on how to reply to hostile messages. "Fuck off" or reply like this was an immediate removal. So it's possible, if you replied within a half an hour or so, that you had a real person reading your reply and responding accordingly.
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u/JeffandtheJundies 19d ago
I have my dad’s phone since he passed, and he was maga. The amount of texts he gets with shame as the driving force is absolutely ridiculous. One of them was the “trump report card” that show he is failing as a supporter (because he’s dead…).
MAN I love reporting those as spam.
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u/eeveesquad911 19d 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 19d ago edited 19d ago
That one's hosted on Scamazon. You can forward it to [trustandsafety@support.aws.com](mailto:trustandsafety@support.aws.com) 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/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
I didn’t even notice they didn’t get my name right. Weird.
Most times it’s my right name. Sometimes not.
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u/Bear-Handed-92262 19d ago
A real core of the GOP and MAGA is elderly people who have been peddled fear by Fox News for decades. They respond well to threats and the GOP prey on them.
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u/FizzioGaming 19d ago
"Hello this is Mao Zedong, the eternal chaiman of the great country of china. Message me again and I will rise again and return to politics"
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u/Sappleq12 19d ago
His name is capitalised but “china” is not. Time for some good old re-education.
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u/FizzioGaming 19d ago
Being humble I have not capitalized china as china is a country so great that no capitalization is needed for the name. Since the country is so great even in lowercase it towers above the rest of the world.
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u/Deltethnia 19d ago
Did you write to your representative who happened to be GOP? My husband did this and his contact info was sold or given away to GOP spam crap.
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u/AggravatingBid8255 19d ago
That's...... disgusting. They don't make enough on their insider stock trades?
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u/Early_Shoe_9450 19d ago
I’ve begun getting them in the mail now. I got a 3 page brochure with a little credit card slip giving my states’ representatives a “grade” based on how likely they are to push the maga agenda and which representatives need more money to push the maga agenda.
It had a boldened sentence about abortion being the number 1 cause of death in my state. Abortions have been totally outlawed in my state for almost 5 years. The leading causes of death are heart disease & cancer. In fact, heart disease and cancer make up over 50% of all deaths in my state.
Throughout the brochure there’s a dozen sentences thrown in to guilt trip about murdering babies and bible verses “proving” we’re all going to hell for every abortion performed in our state. I’ve never supported anything like MAGA. I’m a social worker in a deep red state in a city that’s been neglected for decades.
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
Jeez. I wouldn’t trade. Hitting report and block is easier than finding a trash can.
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
That’s why you get more texts. Because they want more dongs.
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u/theglowofknowledge 19d ago
Yeah, I got one that was like ‘We can see when you have and haven’t voted, everyone can see. Don’t be an embarrassment.’ And had a link to something. It was…irritating. I don’t even know what they hoped to achieve. Which party was it from? Is someone out there just trying to peer pressure people into voting like some kind of school council election? I don’t get it. Plus, I did vote in the last election. What does poking me about four years ago when I didn’t because I was working third shift accomplish? Not my fault the powers that be keep making it harder to vote, even if I don’t like that it’s happening.
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u/Burpmeister 19d ago
Having to register to be allowed to vote is wild.
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u/nkosugeirc 19d ago
America spent decades violently "bringing democracy" to other countries but never stopped to think if they themselves were a democracy in the first place.
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u/daredeviline 19d ago
I haven't but I do need to tell somebody about the fact that Rand Paul left me a 17 minute voicemail the other day. I don't know why but I find it absolutely insane lol
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u/ThatEcologist 19d ago
My dad registered as a republican when he was 18 and never bothered to change it. He has not voted for them in over 20 years lol. But because he never changed it he still sometimes gets republicans shit in the mail. Did you maybe register as such as a kid?
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
I originally registered as Republican when I was 18. Didn’t know any better. I changed it like a year later. So… maybe that marked me for life.
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u/RandomWordCombo9632 19d ago
So… maybe that marked me for life.
pretty much. They likely have a list of registered voters, you still have the same number right? So they just spam these texts out.
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u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 19d ago
I've never voted R. I've never registered R. Every week lately I'm dumping a fistful of conservative propaganda from my mailbox into the recycling. They don't care what you're registered as.
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u/dubyrunning 19d ago
I've gotten the same threatening texts, and I've never registered or voted R. This is an attempt at vote manipulation and intimidation, not unlike the disgusting mass texts minorities got right after Trump was re-elected telling them to get into various colored vans to be taken to reeducation centers. Someone is out there mass spam texting people, and their intentions are not good.
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u/DaKrazie1 19d ago
Okay bozo. Not one person in history has felt threatened by JD Vance. 😂
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u/Lock_Psychological 19d ago
Oh, I don’t feel threatened. I do worry he might steal my wife’s eye liner.
That’ll make her angry.
And you wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.
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u/TomBirkenstock 19d ago
I've occasionally received texts like this from the Trump campaign, and it's an interesting look into the psychology of the average Republican.
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u/Lord_Lorden 19d ago
I mean they need the fear of eternal damnation just to make "moral" decisions. Kinda tells you all you need to know about a person if they need religion to direct their morality.
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u/SuzieDerpkins 19d 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 19d 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/softmonsters 19d ago
I know it's sub rules, but I love that you blocked out "JD Vance".
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u/DamnitGravity 19d ago
During our last federal election in Australia, the Trumpet of Patriots party spent $60 million AUD on a texting campaign. It was the first time a political party attempted a texting campaign and it netted the party a total of ZERO seats.
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u/FormerFastCat 19d ago
You know if you respond with "Fuck off" It auto unsubscribes you right?
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u/doublelxp 19d ago
Just block the number and report it as spam. Never respond to an unsolicited text.
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u/Aiming4UrFace 19d ago
I've been getting the same texts and I just reply fuck you and it unsubscribes me. However I still get upwards of 3 a day
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u/Logogram_alt 19d ago
It would be halarious if the GOP was actually doing this but it is likely a scam
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u/Mach5Driver 19d ago
Wait until the never-ending parade of scams when you turn 60! I block them, I report them, they just switch to a new number within minutes.
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u/SmolWarlock 19d ago
Your 8.3209871e+81 ? Damn. I really don't think I'll live that long.
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u/Prestigious_Pop_7381 19d ago
I got this also. Blocked the number then reported as spam. Have not received anything from them since
I hate political season, since when did I ok all these fools try to fear monger my phone. There’s enough of there bs on tv all day
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u/SFrailfan 19d ago
Tells you everything you need to know about the kind of people these are, honestly
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u/mearbearcate 19d ago
Do they fr think this is gonna make people look positively at these people
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u/Jesus_Christ_Reborn 19d ago
This is most definitely some type of phishing scam
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u/Sneaky-Reasons 19d ago
Yes I agree with you. I got one the other day that said “now is the time! Tell us what side you’re really on. Give us $10 to prove your alliance to democrats and keep us in this country” and then the same link style. I wasn’t answering the Republican ones so they switched to Democrat now I guess 😂
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u/TheLastShipster 19d ago
Under normal circumstances, I would call this a lazy and obvious false flag campaign.
Given what I've seen actual elected officials say on their verified social media or TV, I don't know what to think.
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u/CantaloupeNo7083 19d ago
conservative men are submissive to other conservative men, so their base probably loves it
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u/Numerous-Profile-872 19d ago
Are... are you... like... a couch? 'Cause he's being firm and about to call you Ashley. 😂
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u/neophenx 19d ago
I'm not saying this is the BEST way to deal with them by any stretch of the imagination, but I tend to reply to them with an image of something that would probably be widely considered very uncomfortable content. Something like a drawing of a very weirdly drawn female enderman or creeper from minecraft, or some classic "seduce the dragon" shenanigans.
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u/phishinfordory 19d ago
Any response at all is a verification of your phone number. Your best bet is to ignore it and reported a spam.
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u/Glitter-Berry 19d ago
As soon as you click that link you’ll be fucked. Don’t do it. Never click any link! I had one from my banks fraud dept 5 years ago and ended up having to close my account & didn’t have access to my money, while on vacation, for days until I opened a new account at home. I also had to get my phone wiped bc they put spyware on it & could remote control my phone! Never click any links! Let the scammers stay mad
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u/ripnrun285 19d ago
Honestly this seems like an obvious scam, but our government is currently running the biggest scam in the history of the country.. so I can’t even call it, anymore. Smfh.
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u/NerdfestZyx 19d ago
This is either a phishing scam, or they want your voter info to remove your name because they believe you will vote blue
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u/KingZombiKiller 19d ago
I got very similar ones but they worded it like they were breaking life changing news to me. I just told them to go fuck themselves and ended up getting a human response from someone named Jay
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u/Typhtheoriginal 19d ago
Scammers really be getting angry lately. They act like it's their constitutional right to scam you and you're at fault if you don't respond.
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u/OurLadyOfCygnets 19d ago
What. The. Fuck?
It's like Duo from Duolingo got into politics.
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u/CaligulaNeverBlushed 19d ago
I have spam blockers on with my phone and the amount of spam texts suddenly coming through is crazy!
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u/SolarOrigami 19d ago
Mark it as spam. If you reply stop, it verifies that your phone number is active