Text Scams About Supporting MAGA

Self

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Text Scams involving Trump and supporters.

I've been getting a LOT of scam texts, claiming to be Trump supporters and other conservatives, with links like: (https://q.consrvpledge.com).

Did some checking and they seem to be scams of Chinese origin - beware and NEVER hit such links from your phone or computer.

It looks like the Chinese are trying to piss off Trump supporters by flooding us with crap scam texts.

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Seems to be more nuisance as none of the URLs I've tried resolve to reachable sites - but they all have odd looks to them

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[Nateman]

They don’t care if you get mad or not. They just want that easy Monday. Text them back about the June 4th massacre in China. It gets them in trouble.

[mass55th]

I get them, and I’m not even a registered Republican anymore. I block and delete each one I get, but then they send them from another number, and then I block those too.

[Dan in Wichita]

I get many of these every day. I’ve blocked thousands of their phone numbers, but they probably have millions of them.

[normbal]

SO many of these.

About 5-30 a day for months now.

dailygopnews.com
theamericanpollster.com
usred.co
gv1195.cc/r/ilyXQcApVK6M

Just in the last five minutes.

I report spam and block these but Verizon still lets them through.

I’m using android OS on my phone. Any suggestions that don’t include Apple products?

[Reno89519]

I am getting 1-3 text almost every hour, I report and block every single one of these as spam. By the tiny URL or whatever it is, I cannot discern between legit, if any, and others.

[exDemMom]

I block and delete each one I get, but then they send them from another number, and then I block those too.

They spoof the numbers so that you can't see the real number they are using. Blocking does little good when you can't block the real number.

Sometimes, I block them. But usually, I just delete them.

[PMAS]

Delete and Report as Junk, then block the number - after awhile you get less and less of those texts

[trebb]

I recently switched from AT&T to T-Mobile and with T-Mobile, I never see most of the spam texts when using SMS - they get sent to a spam folder so I can look at them at my leisure and decide how to handle them - the only problem is my car still sees them until I’ve “processed” them. I usually send the “stop” to see if I get a response about no longer on the list to get them - if I get a other from that number, I block and report as spam - over last 2 months, I’ve blocked about 130 numbers and now I’m down to 2-4 a day coming in.
T-Mobile also provided a “Scam Shield” app for regular calls which makes it easy to block/report such calls...t has a rudimentary reverse lookup option which generally shows what state the number is registered in, the provider, and whether it’s a land line or mobile phone.