For the record, I’m a man whose name is not Annie and I don’t even like yoga.

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    I have no idea what kind of weird shit you fell into Bud. But if it’s recurring like that over and over again then they’re just testing to see if you’re alive and the phone number is active. Which is really weird.

    With today’s a modern society, it’s not unusual at all to have people with out-of-state phone numbers live next door. I’ve had the same phone number for myself for over 15 years. They don’t make you change it when you move.

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        I don’t think it’s just you. I think you fell into some weird shit. I’m a strong believer in Occomms razor. The simplest solution is normally the best. As you provide more information, what I believe the simplest solution is changes.

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          Again, if this is a big enough deal that John Oliver devoted one of his shows to it, I don’t think it’s as weird as you’re making out.

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            Oh yes, because it’s perfectly normal to be harassed by unknown phone numbers, nothing weird about that. Just because it’s happening to enough people to get on TV doesn’t mean that the situation you’re going through is normal…

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                He’s my favorite collector of rat erotica https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Up_Late. I’m very much aware of the show. I think we are having a definition issue. I am not calling you. Weird. I’m calling the fact that you are being cold texted weird. Weird as in. That’s unusual and slightly concerning . Clearly there is a known scam. So at some point your number has leaked to these scammers or been sold to them through some type of list.

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                  I get these too. Thousands of people do. Every day. Its a scatter shot approach to text scamming. They dial a number, and they add one to the next number they call.

                  867-5309 867-5310 867-5311 Simple right?

                  Why are you making this so wierd?

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                    ,You’re 7 hours late and you’re clearly lost. If the link is going over your head you might need to watch more. John Oliver. I think it’s pretty weird that you and these thousands of other people are having to deal with this problem. I mean I’m aware that signaling system 7 is complete garbage and that theres vendors facilitating bad actors but this large drag net scamming seems like it could very easily be stoped with minimal effort by most large phone providers working to actively block the bad actors.

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      It’s pretty common, they use bots to text thousands of random numbers hoping for a single reply.

      Go through your spam text folder, I bet you’ll find one or two at least (when it’s not election season)