Debt collectors pay to send you SMS messages, around $.003-$.01 it doesn’t sound like alot but trust me it adds up. They pay the same rate for incoming SMS and even more for MMS. So this holiday season, instead of blocking why not sign their numbers up for every spam SMS under the sun?
Happy Holidays!
Idk, if you reply, they’re incentivised to send you even more messages. Think it through before doing anything.
That’s one take. If they have your info then somebody told them you owe money and they will not stop until you force them to by blocking or calling them and convincing them there is nothing for them. In my experience the right thing is report them to the CFPB, FTC, FCC or whoever takes complaints. That will put a top to them for a moment until they register a new LLC and start sending again. If everyone spam replied it would hit their wallets.
Someone recently posted that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RV_SdCfZ-0s an AI granny, wasting scammer’s time. I think we need more like that. 😆
They need to make an open source SMS version that just spams the collector number.
I’d really love to have an open-source version of her. I’m sure the community could come up with a few more ways to apply the concept. And it’d finally be some very useful use-case for AI 😅