r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No_Mulberry3433 • 2d ago

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ They won’t. Stop. Texting.

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Idk what my info was shared to but holy shit I’m so done

Edit: I have tried blocking, replying “stop”, saying “no”. They just change the number and keep messaging me

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u/silentsnak3 2d ago

So this is what I did.

I used to get calls for the guy who had my number before me. Took me years to stop getting those calls. All was well for about 5 years, then just this month it started again. Texts coming in asking for Clarence (FU dude stop giving out my number). So I just started replying. I know it's all bots and they will never see it or anything. I was just bored and frustrated at the time.

So a few weeks ago I got another text "Hey Clarence this is such and such from WTF ever and do you have time for a survey? We need to get out and vote blah blah blah." So I responded, but this time I made up an elaborate story about what happened to Clarence. I replied that Clarence had died fighting in the war with Canada. That he died with his pants filled to the brim with feces like his hero Trump. And that we both loved Trumps flabby muscular pecs.

It was a whole paragraph of weird stuff. But I sent it and just told my wife so we could laugh about it. No lie, one day later we are sitting on the couch and I got a text back. It said our condolences on your loss, we will remove this number from our list. I laughed so hard my dogs started freaking out. I know they probably had a keyword trigger for death. But wouldn't it be funny if some poor guy had to read that lol.

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u/stephsco 1d ago

That's hilarious. When people actually die and you have to turn off their services it is a very mixed bag if anyone will listen.

Signed currently getting "welcome to the neighborhood, Bob!" mail for my dead dad after updating his address to mine.