Submitted by teacher_comp t3_y96fy4 in Washington
I pay twenty cents per message so this is costing me over a dollar a day. I talked to someone on her campaign, and they said it would take six to twelves weeks to get it to stop. I never signed up for anything with her, never gave her money, and never gave them my phone number. They send from different numbers so I can’t block them. Help. Murray is costing me money.
Edit: since then I received a MMS from Murray. Those cost 30 cents each.
You’re not good at this.
Isn’t there s cloud somewhere you should be yelling at?
Yeah let’s elect a fascist instead! That’ll go well
Try responding with STOP. Service providers are required to stop sending you messages.
I've been getting them from Tiffany Smiley and haven't got another since.
You can't block the number?
I would if there was a better option.
This is the true plight of modern politics. That and partisans.
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This is the answer, if they don’t comply they can lose access to the carrier.
Yeah, they're coming through from every political party. Does your phone or provider have a Text Spam blocker?
Well hopefully she gets Voted Out, so nobody has to hear from her again
For me it's Tiffany Smiley. Every damn day, 4-6 messages. I get unlimited text and they get picked up by T-Mobile spam blocker, so no impacts. But just to show this is not a party-specific thing, and should be outright illegal for all of them.
(Sorry, this meant to go on the main thread)
You can’t block a lot of the text services like Amazon SNS since they use so many different source phone numbers.
That's what I use from T-Mobile and I don't see anything from anyone.
There are still phone plans that charge per text?
Murray has cost you more than 30 cents a text with the “inflation reduction act” haha. Inflation has gone up since its passage, and usually government spending increases inflation rather than the opposite. That’s like if I passed a “household savings bill” that involved me spending 10,000$ and adding to my debt. Very wise marketing by politicians to spin another spending bill as a way to lower inflation…. Gotta love politicians all they do is spend other peoples money to appease the people who donated to their campaign and to guarantee themselves a nice “advisor” or “lobbyist” job once they do eventually lose election.
Before the Reddit crowd roasts me for not towing the dem line. I also believe the GOP does the same exact stuff and I’m not endorsing a certain candidate or party over the other. Both just play the blame game and spend more than the budget and try to appease special interest groups. I’m just trying to point out that while the text scam is ridiculous and borderline harassment we have other problems as well that are less directly felt that in fact cost us lots of money that we don’t notice directly (ie poor energy policy that makes us reliant on the wills of dictatorships overseas while we could become energy independent with both fossil fuel drilling and green energy).
Send them a bill
What's really cool is if you moved here from a different state so you have a different area code you get them from your old state and your new state
I am getting a LOT of spam from Republican candidates in particular. Some are so unhinged and detached from reality that its scary to think that they even have a chance to be elected. The mailers I keep getting often are alarming by the positions they are taking.
I sincerely hope that all of their efforts backfire on them and they don't pick up any more support.
Could be worse, I’m getting the Tiffany Smily ones.
What's really concerning is people still pay PER text message?
Don't vote for her . If everyone does it she will go away
Reply STOP and that should take you off their list, I was getting them non-stop from Tiffany Smiley and screaming at my phone every time lol. If that doesn’t work and you have an iPhone you can delete the conversation from your main messages screen and it will ask if you want to Report Junk and that will take care of it for sure.
I honestly didn’t know those plans existed anymore
And replace her with what? A moronic MAGA clown who moved 8 times?
You could get t-mobile and never get reception anywhere. That aught to fix it. 🤣
You can get cellphone plans for under $10/month with unlimited texts, and just block any number you want. https://airtable.com/shrraH105YVJQF2Yr/tblEmEejK6hl4kEZZ/viwjy8hXFgVcaYoHK
I moved recently and after registering to vote at my new address all I get in the mail is republican propaganda and their smear campaigns of democrats.
It's a good way to know who not to vote for I guess. Even if I didn't care about politics and voted randomly they would annoy me enough to make sure I'd never vote for them with all the spam.
Me too. And I answer every one with my opinion on her since they go through. I want to know which corporations sold our phone lists to these idiots. Not GOPQ and never have been.
I got one the other day that was trying to smear the democrat for supporting abortion as if that was a bad thing. I was confused for a while as to which candidate actually sent it out because I saw it as pro-democrat, which is absolutely NOT what they had intended it to be.
I got one from Tiffany Smily and just typed “stop”. Hopefully worked.
I assume this is a post from the 90s?
Can we help you get a normal phone plan so you don’t have to worry about crap like this?
You should be able to block the number.
I texted them back "8====D'" when someone named Brian Setzler for Portland City Auditor messaged me, and they replied "nice" and left me alone after hahaha.
Just enough time to connect what they can before the time frame is up huh. Wow trying to get milk from the cow but they're really are wanting blood from a turnip.
This is what I'm trying to figure out. I think it was about a decade ago last time I had a phone plan that didn't have unlimited texting included, I didn't realize they still existed
They don’t get Karen’s Dinner either, so I think you can guess the rest.
I think I've gotten that same one at least 3 times
Don't they all say "stop2quit" at the bottom?
I think someone is lying and I doubt they are sending many texts.
I’m calling bullshit on this.
I find the non-stop political ads on YouTube aggravating. Via my desktop, I have all the ad-blockers in place, but when I use the YouTube app on my phone I get ads -which I didn't have a problem with seeing, I usually wait until they play through, but many of the political ads are just alarmist and stupid.
The Robokiller app has a spam text blocking feature. Seems to work well for me
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The "do not call list" does not apply to:
-political calls
-charitable calls
-debt collection calls
-purely informational calls
-surveys
I only get them from Smiley, so don't vote that direction, because that wont fix it either.
Don’t pay such an outrageous amount to send what is basically an e-mail from your phone.
Me too, I only get them from Smiley.
The first one seems resonable, but then after that, someone let the crazy out.
I can't fathom who their target audience is, and how these may somehow get them new voters and not losing voters.
I have lost faith in humanity after seeing Trump get elected and how people STILL worship him even after Jan 6. People are easily brainwashed by the constant propaganda they are fed by the conservative media outlets. We need to figure out how to deprogram them somehow. I am afraid that it may not be possible though since many are so far gone. Convincing someone that they are wrong and getting them to accept that fact is extremely difficult because humans aren’t rational creatures much of the time.
I get the same from both campaigns of Murray and Smiley. I have marked both as SPAM on my phone so it's blocked. Not sure if that solves the cost per text issue
I’ve been getting them from Tiffany Smiley. The last one included the video of her in front of Starbucks on Capitol Hill.
I responded with “I’d rather shove a sandpaper dildo up my asshole than have to listen to Tiffany Smiley bitch about one Starbucks closing ever again” and somehow i haven’t received any more.
I don’t pay twenty cents a message, but if i did it would be twenty cents well spent.
Spam is targeted to your preference. That is for your convenience so you can see what “you want”…. Now bow down and lap it up
Happy Cake Day, glad they left you alone 🙂
TIL. That sucks that it doesn’t apply to political calls.
Is this someone from the past?
I do not open them and delete right away.
Thanks!
Too bad we can't stop her ridiculous TV commercials. I only have to endure them when I'm watching football games, but that's still two days a week too much.
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Yeah, vote her out in November.