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By responding at all, it’s probably just helping spammers warm up numbers, more than anything else. So, counterintuitively, helping the spammers. Spammers nee
by K0balt 2y ago
By responding at all, it’s probably just helping spammers warm up numbers, more than anything else.
So, counterintuitively, helping the spammers.
Spammers need to amass a strong baseline of “organic” received SMS responses in order to be unthrottled so that they can effectively spam.
Responding STOP will get the number blacklisted after a relatively few strikes.
- ses1984 2y agoIn the US they can just spoof numbers.
- K0balt 2y agoNot sure how that works, but I think the message would have to be emitted from an approved dial peer? Or are you just talking about caller id spoofing?
- ses1984 2y agoI was talking about caller id spoofing. If there was another layer to it, I was unaware.
- Evidlo 2y agoI'm not sure if any of these numbers are actually spoofed. When I look them up they are always VOIP numbers.