Community Chat

[haddon9]

Have any of you been getting these?  Each week I get several and just this morning before I even got out of bed I received two!

They go something like this:....

Hi, we saw your profile or resume (I don't have a resume nor have I sent out any profile to a potential employer!) and we can offer you a million dollars for doing almost nothing working form home.....yada, yada, yada.  Just text us back for more information.

Sigh, these are so obviously scams but I find them so annoying taking my time and I feel like they are invading my personal space.  I just hit delete and report junk.

They seem to be increasing and I was wondering if anyone else is on these lists.  I wish I could remove myself!

[CalminHeart]

I have received a few of these and always report and block them. They obviously don't know how old I am. LOL.

[THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes]

Recent corporate data breaches have put tens and tens of millions of email addresses onto the dark web.

There isn't much you can do once they're out there except delete them.

[haddon9]

@THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes I have been wondering why there have been so many the last few months!

[THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes]

My spam emails have also exploded in recent months, mostly product offerings for things I have no interest in.

One of my credit monitoring services notified me that this email address showed up on the dark web.

[haddon9]

@THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes Interesting.  I guess there isn't much I can do and I hope they start to taper off.

[KittySoftPaws]

Try texting back to them with the word, stop. It works to "unsubscribe" to business texts maybe it will work on these. Worth a try anyway.

[haddon9]

@KittySoftPaws I usually do that with a legit site but I'm afriad of doing so with these scammers who might only be encouraged to send more.  However I will give it some thought,,,,who knows?!

[hkrgrl]

i have been getting them as well. i also just 'delete and report spam'

i  also block the number.

not much else you can do.  the price we pay for internet. 

it will only get worse with A.I.

i don't know what to say, but its Christmas and we are all in misery

[haddon9]

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@KittySoftPaws wrote:

Try texting back to them with the word, stop. It works to "unsubscribe" to business texts maybe it will work on these. Worth a try anyway.

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@KittySoftPaws LOL!  After I replied to you I got another text just now so I tried to "stop"....it didn't work and I got a message about it not going through! "Unable to process your message". UGH!

I wish it would stop!!!