Spam Text Messages asking for donations off the hook today?

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Over 30 fund raising text messages this afternoon/evening.

Each has a different number so blocking not effective...

Odd that the uptick started today...

I guess do not call registry means nothing or maybe only applies to voice?
 
   / Spam Text Messages asking for donations off the hook today? #2  
If they come on either my wife's desktop or my laptop, the security software than my cousin installed on these computers (he a Lenovo retail seller and runs his own software business and has 30 full time employees), deletes them before they ever show up in my inbox, plus we run Nord VPN on both as well as our cell phone and my browser is DDG and I run Ad Block plus as well. I get nothing in the way of pandering messages.

I also keep this laptop and her desktop tidy with CCleaner Professional edition. Both have solid state hard drives and both are huge and you cannot defrag a solid state hard drive without damaging it so I never do. It partitions itself automatically and backs itself automatically and creates a shadow file it downloads to my Western Digital 1.5 terrabyte external hard drive as well as my 1 terrabyte thumb drive. I have about 10 times the capacity I'll ever use actually. Better be safe than sorry. I lost the platter hard drive on my previous Gateway laptop and that proved to be a disaster. Was it cheap, not really but it's very safe from intrusion, pandering emails and junk. The CCleaner runs automatically in the background as well. I never touch it or load it up.

Unlike Norton or other security programs, the security software never slows this computer or my wife's computer down at all. They scream constantly. Both run Trend Microservice on the front end but you cannot buy Trend as it has to be a licensed professional install and my cousin installed everything except the Nord.
 
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We have an answering machine built into the landline phone, we run a Brother Intellefax answering machine and never physically answer the phone, ever. They want to leave a message, we call back but panders never leave a message anyway.
 
   / Spam Text Messages asking for donations off the hook today?
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Yesterday was off the hook with text messages through way morning hours...

Phone identified as spam which is 99% accurate although my Doctor's office robo call remaining of appointment also is tagged as Spam so I checked...

Of the 40+ text in the last 24 hours all were asking for donations to push a woman candidate over the top with matching 4 or 6 to 1 for every campaign dollar donated...

All I can think is geographically I live in a target rich area of California but all messages for the same woman candidate.
 
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If it was political fund raising, I believe they are legally exempt from the do not call list.

iOS has an option to only ding when the message is from someone in your contact list. That at least prevents the notifications from distracting you from whatever you're doing.
 

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