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The problem with that is, if you are going to automate spam, you can afford a burner. Or heck, just pay the $16 or so and hijack someone else's number.
by nulbyte 6y ago
The problem with that is, if you are going to automate spam, you can afford a burner. Or heck, just pay the $16 or so and hijack someone else's number.
- erhan24 6y agoSpammers don't just use one account to spam.
- HenryBemis 6y agoThere are free services where you can see a number to get that 'activation code'. Plenty of such services out there.. (a quick search in DDG and this is the top result) https://mytempsms.com/receive-sms-online/country.html https://mytempsms.com/receive-sms-online/country.html
- b0afc375b5 6y agoWhen twitter suspended my account after creation I tried to use these type of services. Unfortunately every number I tried resulted in an error.
- ehnto 6y agoI don't think that's true. For one, the sign up of the accounts itself is often automated and in the hundreds, because bot accounts are squashed all the time. You'd spend thousands on burners. Spam is mostly prevalent because it's cheap and easy to throw millions of requests at the wall and see what sticks. If it did cost really any money at all it wouldn't be remotely worth it.