• FuglyDuck
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    237 hours ago

    Well you can send people “SMS” messages from an email system; if you know who the carrier on that number is. usually it’s [the phone number]@[their service].

    it’s not hard to find what the domain name for the email transfer service is, and who owns which cell phone, and they can just buy a list of phone numbers that ping off college cells under specific circumstances that would indicate they’re college students.

    • @runjun
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      76 hours ago

      I receive spam texts from bullshit emails all the time.

      • FuglyDuck
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        55 hours ago

        Yup.

        And you can have an email server in some Latin American country who doesn’t give a fuck (and why should they?) and basically create a new domain when ever you get shut down for spammy spam.