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Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by sethjr5rtfgh »

splitrocket wrote: post #18
kemayo wrote: post #4

Unfortunately, all of the text spam I get is of the scammy misrepresentation variety, and is going to fail on the "identify the other party" step. Edit: for instance https://imgur.com/D780jAX -- after I naïvely responded to the first few like this and got their pivot, I started to recognize the style.

If you spend a few minutes and get them on the phone and say "I want to wire you funds right now!", they will give you a bank account.

Do you know that or are you guessing?

Because my guess is it won't be that simple.

Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by MarkMarine »

throw8383833jj wrote: post #17

I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each. I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive. the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, just enough to stop the mass phone calling.

These calls are already illegal. There is a Do not call list. The gov has just been completely inept at enforcement, I don’t think we need extra tax, just enforce the laws we have.

Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by paulgb »

sethjr5rtfgh wrote: post #21
splitrocket wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you spend a few minutes and get them on the phone and say "I want to wire you funds right now!", they will give you a bank account.

Do you know that or are you guessing? Because my guess is it won't be that simple.

Yeah, my guess is they would say “oh, we can just do an ACH debit and save you the trouble. What's your account number?”

Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by anubiskhan »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #20
throw8383833jj wrote: post #17

I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each. I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive. the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, just enough to stop the mass phone calling.

And then after it was implemented we'd get political reasons why it still isn't implemented. No thanks. I also don't want people legally spamming me for a penny.

"Judge in LOCATION blocks new phone tax"

Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by TonyTrapp »

sethjr5rtfgh wrote: post #11
kemayo wrote: post #4

Unfortunately, all of the text spam I get is of the scammy misrepresentation variety, and is going to fail on the "identify the other party" step. Edit: for instance https://imgur.com/D780jAX -- after I naïvely responded to the first few like this and got their pivot, I started to recognize the style.

I get those as well. Did you find out who's sending them?

There was an article about this phenomenon not too long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949731

Just a plain old scam attempt.

Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by cdot2 »

wodenokoto wrote: post #23

> You're agreeing to not sue them again for the exact same violation. I hope exact violation means that particular unsolicited text message and not the exact violation of sending unsolicited text messages.

yes it means the same text message

Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by eli »

throw8383833jj wrote: post #17

I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each. I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive. the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, just enough to stop the mass phone calling.

An impractical and difficult to implement idea that would have terrible unintended consequences.

Re: I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

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Post by eli »

splitrocket wrote: post #18
kemayo wrote: post #4

Unfortunately, all of the text spam I get is of the scammy misrepresentation variety, and is going to fail on the "identify the other party" step. Edit: for instance https://imgur.com/D780jAX -- after I naïvely responded to the first few like this and got their pivot, I started to recognize the style.

If you spend a few minutes and get them on the phone and say "I want to wire you funds right now!", they will give you a bank account.

Maybe you’d get a bank account but it wouldn’t actually be theirs.
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