I wouldn’t be surprised if using “fuck” as your first word automatically unsubscribed you. It might have nothing to do with a person reading the response.
Probably one of the most common responses to these messages is “fuck off”.
“Fuck yeah!”
you have been unsubscribed
“wut?!”
It’s always better to say stop or end or unsubscribe or something. Then they legally have to unsubscribe you, but they don’t if you send the message in the OP.
“Legally”?
Has there been a single recorded case where somebody tried to unsubscribe from text spam like this, kept receiving it, and successfully had the sender prosecuted?
Yes. Its rare-ish, but very lucrative as the spammers are violating the “TCPA” act, which has high penalties. Fines are around $500- $1500/text.
This legal site has some examples:
Politicians exempted themselves from the anti spam laws. Funny how that works.
Aside from those basic catchall replies, I bet they get so few actual replies it might be easier to just have a bunch of interns on staff give you a real human reply.
Is it normal for Americans to constantly receive spam sms?
Yes, for political spam because they exempted themselves from the law. They want participating in democracy to be as painful as possible, so they punish you for registering to vote like this.
Thankfully in my state you can at least register as “independent of party” and still participate in primary elections. That cuts down on the spam significantly.
Used to work but I’m an independent and this year I got dozens of texts for some reason…
Yeah its a poisoned medium for communication
As soon as i started applying for jobs they started coming in again. After 3 years without much if any.
Everyone sells your information. I’ve given up.
Elderly we helped would get 10+ a day sometimes.
Yes. I’m registered democrat, but I would occasionally get texts from republican incumbents that don’t represent my district begging for money. Like how the fuck did you even get this number? I’m CONSTANTLY being spammed by democrats that represent other districts asking me for money. They were all incumbents, so I donated to the democratic socialists that were running against them in the primaries. Special “fuck you,” goes out to Jenifer Rajkumar, I enjoyed donating every penny to David Orkin. Fuck you and your red dress.
Whoops, looks like thinking about those spam texts got me triggered.
Depends, used to get them fairly often, I don’t get them at all these days. I stoped giving my number out on signups unless it’s something where they actually might have a good reason to call me, like a doctors office or something.
Basically no laws, at least not enforceable ones, for having your number shared if you give it to someone. Companies and website will often ask for them as part of sign up, and then sell them off to data brokers for money. Cellphone carriers have been known to sell location data tied to phone numbers to data brokers as well. Lot of campaigns or local party organizations build volunteer and donor lists, and will share those between each other as well, makes it really frustrating to try and get involved with a campaign.
All of it results in a ton of spam, scams, and ads, only real solution Is to refuse to give out your phone number unless absolutely necessary, use temporary voip numbers when it’s insisted upon by something that has no business texting you.
Not as much as phone calls
For anyone wondering, he won the primary yesterday easily. His runner up was a much more progressive community organizer, and got about 30% of the vote, compared to Morelle’s 64%.
I’m so pissed about it, but I’m only one vote…
At least NYC got some more progressive candidates in.
The Syracuse DSA just won 2 of 3 local primaries!
His commercials have been running non-stop since early voting started. They claim “he gets things done” but there are never any specifics. Because what he’s done is support the Trump agenda.
He voted to thank ICE because he didn’t read the bill he was voting on. I don’t know which is worse.
He still has a very centralist/spineless stance with MAGA, regardless.
Good news is that 2 of 3 candidates endorsed by the Syracuse chapter of the DSA won their primaries yesterday!
