Now if only they'd take some sort of action against all the spam text messages I get. I swear I get a dozen texts a week from stringofnumbers@fakeemail.com telling me my amazon account has been suspended or a USPS package is on hold.
I get 5-10 a day honestly. I have to ban every one of them or they become accumulative with repeat calls because they keep calling and calling. They frequently then just move to another number and we do it again…
It’s obviously a handful of companies behaving very badly. Let’s me share some examples…
They say the same things from the same companies:
- “Hi this is Jamie with the RTC helpdesk I'm calling to let you know that substantial business tax incentives that are still available through the employee retention tax credit _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ can provide business funding up to $26,000 for each W-2 employee you had on staff during 2020 and 2021 if you qualify we do all of the work and submit your application …
- “Hi this is James calling from coastal debt resolved we help small business owners lower the payments or restructure any merchant cash advances that they've taken out and are having a difficult time getting them back we thought it was possible you might have one or more of these I want to see if we can offer our help my direct line is 877-412-0535 please give me a call at your earliest convenience so we can discuss your current situation thanks and have a great day…”
- “888-310-9170 I'm contacting you regarding a potential refund opportunity for your business related to the year 2020 and 2021 please be aware that this refund does not involve any taxes or loans and there is no need for repayment to proceed with the refund process we simply need to verify some details regarding your businesses employee account during those years if you believe this call was not meant for you or if you wish to opt out of any future communication please press nine when calling back thank you for your time and I'm eagerly awaiting the opportunity to speak with you best regards Eva…”
- “Hey this is Mark reaching back out again please give me a call back at 205-460-5936 so I did receive a notification today at your business is done and Bradstreet score was recently upgraded up to a 76 now this is a big deal because I put you in the top 10% of businesses in your industry and revenue range now because it is great score we're happy to see that your business has been preapproved for a business credit line up to $500,000 and the interest rate on these lines start his lowest 4.8% so they really don't cost very much at one of the best things about this offer is how fast we can get the money over to you if you were to say yes to this credit line we can have the funds over to you within just 24 hours please remember these offers don't last forever so please call me back directly at 205-460-5936 to make sure there's no confusion that's 205-460-5936 hope you have a really good day I have a blessed day and thank you…”
- “Hey it's Tiffany with capital group I'm just touching base regarding your business plans of corner am I still have immediate funding options up to $250,000 with limited to no documentation necessary so am I can be reached at 949-4645479 I'll give you that number again it's …
The capital group hits me up many times a week from many different sources.
I don’t even bother to answer calls. I just ask people to leave a message. It’s made my phone basically unusable.
They're talking about text messages. You can send a text message from an email address. For example "8675309@txt.att.net" would send a text message to Jenny if she were an AT&T subscriber.
I went through a massive campaign of explicit/sketchy/spam email-texts... Textra(SMS app) introduced an ignore feature that captured that thankfully after a few weeks of nonstop aggravation. My carrier would not disable that feature despite multiple requests(likely wouldn't know how either).
Yeah the first time it happened to me it was surprising and I looked it up. But now it's practically weekly. Most spam texts still come from regular numbers though. "hi /cars* compro/carros"
