I received an advertisement from T-Mobile in the mail today where they must have gotten my data from some website that forced me to fill out personal information

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I routinely get texts to “Henry”, which is not my name. I must have done the same–entered a fake name. The bastards are persistent, I keep blocking the number, and they keep texting with a different number. I don’t understand the reasoning, if I go so far as to block your number, why do you think continuing to harass me is going to change my mind?

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I still get a load of spammy texts directed to the prior user of my #, and pretty clearly they’re almost all produced by simple automation. But even with live callers, I believe many companies have automated a lot of that process as well. So as with email spam (etc), it might take surprisingly little effort to produce the call. So it can still be worth it for them, statistically, to harass you.