This is only marginally related to the subject of the orginal post, but I saw the words “GOP” and “spam” and wanted to ask for help from fellow freepers.
In the Georgia Senate runoff following the 2020 elections, I made modest donations to both GOP candidates through the candidates’ official website. They asked for information including name and address which is required by federal law, and I was foolish enough to also enter my mobile phone number in the space provided on their online form.
The thanks I have gotten for my donation is the following:
Since January 2021, I have received multiple texts to my phone per day asking for donations for various Republican causes - sometimes as many as 4 or 5 per day. Texts are one way that family/friends/colleagues can get in touch with me immediately, and it interrupts my work day to get repeated phone alerts for spam soliciting political donations. I try to block every number that sends me this spam, but they just rotate to other numbers.
Has anyone else here at FR experienced this and is there anything they’ve been able to do about it? It just seems highly unprofessional to abuse donors in this way, but then this is the Republican Party, so maybe unprofessional is redundant.
When contacted with fundraising solicitations from Republican entities, I’m now telling them that I’m making no further donations to any Republican organization or candidate until the spam texts stop. However, at this stage, I fear my mobile phone number has been distributed so widely among Republican fundraising organizations that it is probably impossible to ever get my number off of all the lists.
Though I despise the political bias of Google, but given the way GOP Senators contact information for fundraising, Spam folders are the correct location for those solicitations.
Any advice?
I get the same thing, political spam. I just block the numbers as they roll in. Many are random, I have zero association with the sender - liberal spam as much as Trump spam.
Similar in the mailbox near election time.
There is nothing you can do about it, short of not having a smartphone and not having a mailbox.
Since January 2021, I have received multiple texts to my
phone per day asking for donations, etc
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Not sure how you handle that. I get multiple calls each day
soliciting for some cause or other. A lot don’t even respond
if you answer. Making a list for trash mail, etc as far as I
can tell.
Click this link for some links that may or may not be of help.
Hang in there.....
Recently, maybe two weeks ago or so, the texts cluttering my phone suddenly stopped. Ditto the emails
Instead, I get money requests from some congressional candidates all over the country
Give them your ex-wife’s number. Better yet, a leftie’s number.