I don't understand where the scam is here. How does exiting and restarting the text app let them take over your phone? Or is that a red herring so you will try that first and then be like 'oh well, guess i gotta do the alternate method'?
Wonder if some spam filters might prevent links being active for numbers you haven’t interacted with maybe, so they get you to send them a text to establish contact and get around that and enabled links? Only thing I can think of.
Beats me. I just deleted it. Wish I could block those things preemptively though.
we could easily fix the spam/scam problem, and very briefly they talked about it, and then realized how useful it could be for them if it remained as is—but they’ll lock down the flow of information, because that’s harmful—to them
Bro rip that knob & tube wiring completely out. It's not worth the hassle.
causing fires
2 fold, freezing credit means noone can get new stuff on credit using your info. If we see something that doesn't make sense on our CC's we get new ones immediately.