The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
The United States Postal Service is warning of a scam involving text messages that ask for information in order for a package to be delivered.
Tell me you don’t understand that responding at all guarantees you are on a spammer sell list, without telling me that you don’t know that responding at all puts you on the scammers sell list.
I don’t know but he’s making it a more valuable resource. He is letting the spammers charge more for his number when they resell it since it’s verified.
Yeah. Spammers love to be told to suck a disk. Known active numbers are worth more, absolutely.
Hell, I was looking at the spam filter on Messages and accidentally opened one. It was sent as an RCS message and I was worried I’d be flagged and spammed more because of the Read receipt.
I did the same thing just a bit ago… assuming i could still forward it to VZW spam prevention team (S-P-A-M: 7726)
but alas
At the same time it also costs them a penny each time I send them one, might just start sending images and costing them more instead.
I’ve also worked with SMS APIs and roughly know the costs from provider to provider.