WTF??? Did anyone else get this text message?

[garybeck]

This text message arrived on my phone just a few minutes ago. Are they sending text messages now to everyone in America? where did they get my phone number? Are they abusing the emergency alert system? I did not sign up for this CRAP! WTF!!?!?!?!

[radical noodle]

1. I didn't get it

[brucefan]

2. you should block your number.

[onenote]

3. Didn't get it.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

4. I did not get it.

I suspect someone put your number in to a website for the TangerAnus that blast-texts people.

[coti]

5. It's not an emergency alert, it's phone spam nt

[garybeck]

6. supposed to be illegal in my state. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

9. Just because something is illegal doesn't mean someone can't or won't do it. n/t

[jberryhill]

14. I'll bet all kinds of things are illegal in your state

In all probability, your state, like most states, has laws.

People violate them.

In fact, there's not much point in having laws against things that people don't do.

If nobody did those things, then we wouldn't have laws against them.

[Ms. Toad]

20. So is calling people on the do not call list.

I get at least one commercial call a day.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Not yet.

[zipplewrath]

8. That's an 800 number

Looks like whoever has 855-464-7841 got your number. Mostly they're probably trying to confirm the numbers validity by getting you to answer the text.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

10. Sounds like somebody's panicking!

They're coming to get you Donny-there's one of them now! (that's a nod to Night of the Living Dead) The Tea Party has been sending out dozens of emails a day for the last two months. I don't know how I got on their mailing list but "unsubscribing" isn't stopping them. They have been becoming more and more unhinged with each passing day. Crazy accusations against democrats and desperate pleas to support Trump against the deep state. At first I was kind of pissed that they kept coming, now it's kind of entertaining and humerous in a dark way. They hear the hounds in the distance-and they're getting closer.

[lagomorph777]

15. You should be able to block that number.

I can do that on my phone.

[wendyb-NC]

11. No

At least not so far.

[spanone]

12. NO

[petronius]

13. Could be smishing (a 'word' I just learned) - getting you to reply to eventually trick you

into giving up ID info, install malware, rack up phone charges, or just bug you for a donation.

(Pretty sure it's the Deep State attempting to track down and destroy the True RW Patriots... )

[marble falls]

16. I gave up everything but a land line 12 years ago. I found out I can do just fine without one ...

Used to carry two cell phones and just looking at them every 15 minutes was eating up time.

[Mosby]

17. I got it yesterday around 1PM

Pres. Trump is asking you to stand with him against the Liberal Mob & FAKE NEWS media. To Officially stand with the President reply YES in the NEXT 5 MINUTES

Came from 855-689-4944.

[garybeck]

21. i looked up the federal law against SMS spam

unsolicited SMS messages are illegal. however there is an exception for political surveys! UGH!

[renate]

18. Good lord. "To *officially* stand with the president..."

"Officially"

And yet you just know that a bunch of maroons are going to lap it up.

[Blue Owl]

19. Fuck that shit

n/t