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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: midwest
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Got a text from Mom
It said "Join me on Facetime" with a couple attached pictures, which I didn't click on.
(maybe it is too late. virus transmitted.) Called her back and she didn't send the message. Over the past few months I've gotten a dozen highly political texts containing roughly "Confirm your support for President X" and I replied "STOP" to each of the orgs. How did that happen? Somehow I got on a mailing list? So either Apple is stealing it's user's contact data to impersonate customers....and spam it's services...or someone else is able to fake the sender....and my dumb phone is targeted for malware. Another similar thing happened a few years ago. I received four or five letters directly from 'neighbors' asking me to sign up for NextDoor dot com. One was from a guy a 1/4 mile away. I looked him up and he was 92 years old. Another was from a lady around the corner who I knew. Went over and she was a little freaked out. So how is impersonating another individual not very illegal?
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08-08-2023, 03:01 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: somewhere between here and there
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They didn't succeed in taking your money or data--so, only aspirational, not criminal.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Beach CA, the sewer by the sea.
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I set my phone to do not disturb and allow family to use the emergency bypass. If I'm expecting a call I will temporarily add that contact. Whenever I check the thing there are spam calls and calls from doctors etc. I teel them to send an email.
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08-09-2023, 07:16 AM
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Get off my lawn!
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I keep getting one from some BS company addressing me as Carrera, as that is in the email address I have had since dial up days of the 1980s. It says they are not responsible if my iCloud account gets hacked, because I have not clicked their link. I still have that old email as I don't want to kill it. And I do not use it at all with my Apple phone, never have. I just report it as spam, and forget them.
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08-09-2023, 08:12 AM
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You saying there are spammers out there? No way! lol
I get texts now and again from them and even if you block they keep coming.
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08-09-2023, 08:15 AM
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