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The scammers always have a field day with elections because so many people are too politically charged to do research. By LAW, every US campaign has to have the actual name of the person who's sending texts and if it doesn't, you know it's a scam. If you have T-Mobile, you can forward the text to 7726 (SPAM) and they'll shut it down. Never ever respond to these. Don't even say "STOP" because then they'll know it's a number connected to a real human and not a business... a human they can scam.
In regards to not having signed up, depending on what state you're in, the parties can query your voter records, some states make your phone number available in those queries. There are other avenues too, like Colorado's DMV sells your personal information to third parties without your consent, for example.
My wife gets a ton of political texts intended for me. Best I can tell is because her cell phone number is under my name with T-Mobile. (Used to be a Sprint account before the merger) I've never used her number to sign up for anything under my name. So it would seem either Sprint sold it or an employee leaked it or something.
I have a Google voice number and pretty much don't get political texts. The Google voice number rings a T-Mobile prepaid phone, that number doesn't get political texts either.
Look, no campaign wants to annoy voters but also they want everyone to be contacted. Just respond with "STOP" and it will stop. Unfortunately, every campaign buys your data so nearly ever campaign will send you a text.
Also, they use various services to send these texts so each the numbers sent from will change so you can't just block them.
This is what dying of cringe in text message format looks like.
Good thing my browser doesn’t keep cookies, or that might’ve leaked my Google info. But here’s what the link goes to:
My first thought was ‘Russian troll farm’ and I never got to the second thought.
Yes ... Get used to it
Your instinct is wrong. If you want them to stop, you have to tell them to stop.
Yes, they will add you to other phone lists, but I think they'll do that whether you text STOP or not. Also, it takes like 5 seconds.
I would be afraid its a trap, like clicking the link might add me to a radical MAGA hit-list or something.
A friend told me that if you use undesirable language (please don't stoop to racial slurs), they'll mark your number as 'hostile'. This will propagate to other lists, removing you from them before you're even added. She swears (pun intended) by it.
Edit: it's important you don't threaten them, lest you be added to a different kind of list...
I just like the fact that "Fuck off" has the same functionality as stop for some systems.
If it's a non-racial cuss, she's sent it to these folks. One bloke had the audacity to ask her to stop using that type of language... so she used it even harder.
Barack OSAMA is a soshaless and I WILL TERRORISM YOU and the like. Got it.
I consider myself lucky because I can't recall ever getting any messages like that from either side. Closest I've come is mail for local candidates for non-presidential office.