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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 02:10:41 JST Paul Cantrell

   I am once again getting a wave of right-wing spam SMSes from Hillsdale College (purportedly). Are they actually letting their institution’s name be attached to political spam? I realize there are all kinds of super gross things about Hillsdale as an institution, but even so, I’d think the institution would want to preserve some shred of self-respect, or at least try to keep up appearances.

   The spam links are all the domain rght.io followed by 6-character alphanumeric codes, such as:

   http://rght.io/jjne75
   http://rght.io/ip0l3b
   http://rght.io/646anh
   http://rght.io/aem0ai
   http://rght.io/8gplnp
   http://rght.io/mncl8i
   http://rght.io/eo556l
   http://rght.io/15bk46
   http://rght.io/igd8ga
   http://rght.io/pp2ggf

   (Those are random examples, I don’t want them validating my number; I just want to send the typical Fedi server traffic their way.)

   I haven’t investigated the domain, server, etc. at all, but if anyone is inspired…have at it!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 02:53:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Leon P Smith

     @leon_p_smith
     Guess we’d better try all the combinations then!

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     Leon P Smith (leon_p_smith@ioc.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 02:53:56 JST Leon P Smith

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     @inthehands I'm getting 302-redirected to not-found.domain.

     I'm guessing if you put in the actual links they sent you, you'd get redirected elsewhere. Sketchy as hell.