anyone else seeing an uptick in spam texts and stuff last few weeks? really frustrating
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very confused why text spam filtering isn't a solved problem. can i whitelist so only people in my contacts can text / call me on an iphone?
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Why isn’t spam text filtering better? Didn’t we solve this like 20 years ago when email spam was bad?
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The new ones are now naked women saying they missed me rather than the previous fake engagement texts
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one of them looked so startling similar to someone i knew i almost texted back
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i've been getting very annoying spam calls which is awful because i have Gen Z call anxiety
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Ah, I imagined this had a name, but I didn't know it. "Catfishers".
(And yes, me too. At least once a week.)
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Yep.
Especially pretty young Asian women with glamorous pictures contacting me by "mistake". ("Hey Jon, let's keep working together." "Oh, you're not Jon? Let's be friends anyway!") This seems to be taking the place of ye olde Nigerian scams of yore.
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this has happened to me twice! the first time I was sad when I realized it was a scam
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Why isn’t spam text filtering better? Didn’t we solve this like 20 years ago when email spam was bad?
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yeah i'm super confused about this
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