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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 02:51:46 JST Paul Cantrell

   Blarg, I am getting just an ungodly amount of Trump fundraising SMS spam from the following domains:

   http://24win.co
   http://24pat.co
   http://usred.co
   http://red24.us
   http://rep-24.co
   http://ourusa.co
   http://upred.co
   http://24act.us
   http://a-ction.us

   How did I get on these spam lists? Where is the spam filtering? And how are any of these web sites still up??? (←rhetorical questions that do not require answers)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 02:55:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I notice that many of those domains are aliases to us.blaze.link.

     I believe that the iPhone recently added SMS spam filtering. I wonder what it takes to write a custom filter that does a DNS resolution, and filters anything that resolves to that domain? (If anybody’s done investigation into SMS filtering for iPhone, I’d be curious to hear about it!)

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     Jeff Phillips (jeffphi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 04:21:52 JST Jeff Phillips

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     @inthehands
     I have/had the same experience with GOP SMS spam referencing those domains 😠 In my case, they started appearing in December 2023, though my Android phone (a Pixel model) seems to be successfully filtering them since about May of this year. I went so far as to send a complaint via abuse@name.com back in January, though clearly that had no effect.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 04:21:52 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Jeff Phillips

     @jeffphi
     Yes, it’s been going on for a while for me, and in a similar timeframe. Some kind of carpet bombing operation here, clearly.