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Pro Tip #1,773: How to stop spam text messages
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:17 am
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:17 am
Sure there’s apps and stuff that will sort most of the shite, often times you have to buy them or subscribe.
I’ve found an easier, free way, that doesn’t take a lot of effort. So I imagined that it’s obviously a “robot-spam-text program” that most likely logs incoming messages as well as logging the links sent to see who’s click on what, etc.
Step 1: Open your text messages and start a new text
Step 2: Send a random, whatever, text to a number that you KNOW is a landline
Step 3: You will get a “bounce back” saying that you need a working number or something, COPY THAT WHOLE TEXT
Step 4: Don’t delete the bounce back text, just keep it handy
Step 5: Whenever you get a spam text, get to the bounce back text in your inbox as fast as possible and PASTE IT in the spam text and hit send.
Step 6: ???????
Step 7: Profit
These robot text spammers are paying for every one of their spam texts and I’m sure that they wouldn’t want to waste money on line they believe to be unused or not working, etc.
It took about a week when I was getting 5-6 spams a day, now I’m down to *MAYBE* one a week?
Good luck.
P.S. You should keep at least one bounce back message handy so you don’t have to scroll far down... I’m not sure if it’s logged on their end or if they just do a reconciliation at the end of the day or something. But I try to keep the most recent one as close to the top as possible.
I’ve found an easier, free way, that doesn’t take a lot of effort. So I imagined that it’s obviously a “robot-spam-text program” that most likely logs incoming messages as well as logging the links sent to see who’s click on what, etc.
Step 1: Open your text messages and start a new text
Step 2: Send a random, whatever, text to a number that you KNOW is a landline
Step 3: You will get a “bounce back” saying that you need a working number or something, COPY THAT WHOLE TEXT
Step 4: Don’t delete the bounce back text, just keep it handy
Step 5: Whenever you get a spam text, get to the bounce back text in your inbox as fast as possible and PASTE IT in the spam text and hit send.
Step 6: ???????
Step 7: Profit
These robot text spammers are paying for every one of their spam texts and I’m sure that they wouldn’t want to waste money on line they believe to be unused or not working, etc.
It took about a week when I was getting 5-6 spams a day, now I’m down to *MAYBE* one a week?
Good luck.
P.S. You should keep at least one bounce back message handy so you don’t have to scroll far down... I’m not sure if it’s logged on their end or if they just do a reconciliation at the end of the day or something. But I try to keep the most recent one as close to the top as possible.
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Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:19 am to yankeeundercover
quote:
Sure there’s apps and stuff that will sort most of the shite, often times you have to buy them or subscribe.
I’ve found an easier, free way, that doesn’t take a lot of effort. So I imagined that it’s obviously a “robot-spam-text program” that most likely logs incoming messages as well as logging the links sent to see who’s click on what, etc.
Step 1: Open your text messages and start a new text
Step 2: Send a random, whatever, text to a number that you KNOW is a landline
Step 3: You will get a “bounce back” saying that you need a working number or something, COPY THAT WHOLE TEXT
Step 4: Don’t delete the bounce back text, just keep it handy
Step 5: Whenever you get a spam text, get to the bounce back text in your inbox as fast as possible and PASTE IT in the spam text and hit send.
Step 6: ???????
Step 7: Profit
These robot text spammers are paying for every one of their spam texts and I’m sure that they wouldn’t want to waste money on line they believe to be unused or not working, etc.
It took about a week when I was getting 5-6 spams a day, now I’m down to *MAYBE* one a week?
Good luck.
P.S. You should keep at least one bounce back message handy so you don’t have to scroll far down... I’m not sure if it’s logged on their end or if they just do a reconciliation at the end of the day or something. But I try to keep the most recent one as close to the top as possible.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:20 am to yankeeundercover
I have never received a bounce back text
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:21 am to yankeeundercover
<——Gets maybe one spam text per month
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:22 am to yankeeundercover
quote:
Step 1: Open your text messages and start a new text
Step 2: Send a random, whatever, text to a number that you KNOW is a landline
Step 3: You will get a “bounce back” saying that you need a working number or something, COPY THAT WHOLE TEXT
Step 4: Don’t delete the bounce back text, just keep it handy
Why don't you just paste the text here for us to use?
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:22 am to fightin tigers
quote:
I have never received a bounce back text
I just sent a text to my mom's landline to see if I'd get a bounce back text, I didn't get any bounce back text. I now want to meet up with the OP at Sonic
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:26 am to dbeck
The “#’s” are your phone numbers w/ area code
quote:
1########## Error Invalid Number.
Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile
number or valid short code.
This post was edited on 2/17/21 at 9:27 am
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:28 am to yankeeundercover
Id rather download an app. Couple bucks a month is fine, because they have more than just spam block.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:28 am to yankeeundercover
I never get spam texts. Occasionally I will get a call to renew my cars warranty, but that’s it.
Quit subscribing to every ad that rolls across your Facebook, boomer.
Quit subscribing to every ad that rolls across your Facebook, boomer.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:29 am to yankeeundercover
I just need to talk to you about extending you warranty on your car
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:30 am to yankeeundercover
Awesome! Any pro-tip on how to stop receiving unwanted Oweo threads?
This post was edited on 2/17/21 at 9:36 am
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:31 am to TigerOnTheMountain
The problem is their software recognizes if it’s sent and clicked on in some cases and when that happens they’ll define It as a good number and spam will continue
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:34 am to TigerOnTheMountain
quote:Firstly, I don’t even have FB... and I know better... and at the rate the texts were coming in, it had to be someone fricking with me and when I brought it up to some buddies they laughed and said they’d put my number in for auto insurance, free trips, etc.
Quit subscribing to every ad that rolls across your Facebook, boomer.
Deciding on how I’m going to get them back...
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:34 am to yankeeundercover
I never received spam texts until i switched to Verizon.
But even now its only a couple a month...not worth all that OP shite.
But even now its only a couple a month...not worth all that OP shite.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:36 am to gobuxgo5
quote:Thats what I thought, but I’m telling you they must just hit “Start” and then reconcile all of the “STOP”, “UNSUBSCRIBE”, and “clicked links” data later on...
The problem is their software recognizes if it’s sent and clicked on in some cases and when that happens they’ll define It as a good number and spam will continue
Because I’m telling you it’s all but stopped them dead.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:48 am to yankeeundercover
That's probably not going to work because robo spam texting uses automated technology to send text messages to cell numbers. Marketers (and scammers) buy lists of cell phone numbers to use for this so the odds of one of those numbers being a landline are low already so they're probably not checking the replies. They're only interested in the clicks the included links get them. It's a numbers game. You can paste that bounce back message to them all you want but it likely won't work.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 9:58 am to yankeeundercover
I just block the number.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:00 am to yankeeundercover
quote:I don't know what I'm doing right, but I very rarely receive spam texts (the only ones I can think of are political ones and I probably received only a handful this last election).
It took about a week when I was getting 5-6 spams a day, now I’m down to *MAYBE* one a week?
Posted on 2/17/21 at 10:02 am to dbeck
quote:
Sure there’s apps and stuff that will sort most of the shite, often times you have to buy them or subscribe.
I’ve found an easier, free way, that doesn’t take a lot of effort. So I imagined that it’s obviously a “robot-spam-text program” that most likely logs incoming messages as well as logging the links sent to see who’s click on what, etc.
Step 1: Open your text messages and start a new text
Step 2: Send a random, whatever, text to a number that you KNOW is a landline
Step 3: You will get a “bounce back” saying that you need a working number or something, COPY THAT WHOLE TEXT
Step 4: Don’t delete the bounce back text, just keep it handy
Step 5: Whenever you get a spam text, get to the bounce back text in your inbox as fast as possible and PASTE IT in the spam text and hit send.
Step 6: ???????
Step 7: Profit
These robot text spammers are paying for every one of their spam texts and I’m sure that they wouldn’t want to waste money on line they believe to be unused or not working, etc.
It took about a week when I was getting 5-6 spams a day, now I’m down to *MAYBE* one a week?
Good luck.
P.S. You should keep at least one bounce back message handy so you don’t have to scroll far down... I’m not sure if it’s logged on their end or if they just do a reconciliation at the end of the day or something. But I try to keep the most recent one as close to the top as possible.
quote:
Why don't you just paste the text here for us to use?
Yeah what the frick was the point of telling us how to do it. The whole OP reads like a spam post.
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