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Did you get a text from yourself? Don't click on anything
CBS ^
| MARCH 29, 2022
| Kate Gibson
Posted on 03/29/2022 10:53:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If you get a text message that looks to be from yourself, don't click on it. That's the sage advice of experts and of Verizon, which has received numerous complaints about customers getting spam text messages that seem to come from their own phone numbers.
Verizon's community [customer?] forum includes a thread published on Sunday that details a recent increase in "spoof" texts informing recipients that they've paid their March bill and can get a free gift by clicking a link.
"We can't block ourselves..........what's the solution Verizon?" asked one customer of the wireless giant.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: callerid; cellphone; spamtexts; spoofing; stopspoofing
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To: BenLurkin
Just got a call from a fellow with a heavy Indian accent who wanted to sell me a burial plan.
I told him I plan to live forever and not ever die so there is no need, and that Jesus is coming to get us that trust Him in mid May.
He said he believed the same thing!
We determined that we were family and would see each other in the air very soon =)
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posted on
03/29/2022 11:39:53 AM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
To: cableguymn
dont start- once you start- you can’t stop- lol
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posted on
03/29/2022 11:43:27 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: BenLurkin
New song from 80’s Rocker Billy Idol: “Texting W/Myself!”
To: Codeflier
“Doesn’t that duplicate the reminder or list? It shows what you sent and what you received.”
Easier for me to use one tool for multiple purposes.
To: Codeflier
Doesn’t that duplicate the reminder or list? It shows what you sent and what you received.
Not on an iPhone. It just shows "delivered" next to the text you send yourself. So it's more like a note pad.
To: BenLurkin
Got exactly this text, Verizon, iPhone, "from" my own number, last night.
Didn't click. Showed my wife, in case she gets one. Deleted it.
Bastages, I hate them, I hate them all.
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posted on
03/29/2022 12:27:43 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: BenLurkin
I occasionally get phone calls from myself as well as emails.
I never respond because I know how boring I am to talk to or correspond with.
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posted on
03/29/2022 1:02:58 PM PDT
by
euram
To: mmichaels1970
I could send you a screenshot that shows otherwise from my iPhone.
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posted on
03/29/2022 1:35:57 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(I am just going to assume you are a Democrat if you call me a Putin supporter and ignore you.)
To: BenLurkin
I get emails saying ‘they’ have been monitoring my pc and to pay up or ‘they’ will tell the world my secrets.....
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posted on
03/29/2022 2:16:27 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy gas)
To: BenLurkin
How to get rid of telemarketing.
Owners get 500k fine and 10 years in federal prison.
Manager get 250k fine and 5 years in federal prison.
Workers get 100k fine a 1 year in federal prison.
India has 30 days to stop telemarketing calls or we start shipping home H1B visa holders. ,10% of them a month.
If calls persist we shut all incoming and outgoing calls to India.
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posted on
03/29/2022 2:18:12 PM PDT
by
Keyhopper
(Indians had bad immigration laws)
To: Codeflier
I could send you a screenshot that shows otherwise from my iPhone.
As I could send one that shows the opposite. Strange. I literally texted myself before my previous post. iOS 15.3.1
To: mmichaels1970
The carrier perhaps? iPhone 13 with latest update.
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posted on
03/29/2022 6:57:35 PM PDT
by
Codeflier
(I am just going to assume you are a Democrat if you call me a Putin supporter and ignore you.)
To: Codeflier
Perhaps. I’m Verizon and no “echo”. My wife is T-mobile and she DOES get the echo you describe.
To: mmichaels1970
We solved it I think. T-Mobile for me as well, and I get both out and in.
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posted on
03/30/2022 1:01:25 AM PDT
by
Codeflier
(I am just going to assume you are a Democrat if you call me a Putin supporter and ignore you.)
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