Tons of mobile scam spam

[venomtail]

Been getting more and more mobile message spam. Lately my Signal has been flooded by bots and I get a day about 5 new requests to start investing into bitcoin to make $1-2k a day, pUrE pRoFiT.

 

My suspect is this Christmas season and signing up to all those store discounts when creating an account. I don't tend to give out my number though, its the email usually. Some one's either sold mine, leaked it or was hacked. What's one of the better sites to have check where all my shit is? Get rid of my phone number and possibly email? Unsubscribe from a lot of spam and maybe display a summary of in total all the things I've given out my email to?

[Spotty]

Are you only receiving the messages on Signal? Or are you also receiving unusually high scam calls, SMS, or emails?

 

Do the messages contain any personal information like your name, or is it just a generic message?

[venomtail]

1 hour ago, Spotty said:

Are you only receiving the messages on Signal? Or are you also receiving unusually high scam calls, SMS, or emails?

 

Do the messages contain any personal information like your name, or is it just a generic message?

I'm receiving emails, normal messages and calls. Email has a spam folder that works at 110% efficiency. I've bought a Samsung which has its build in spam filter which works nicely, all 3 meaning I don't get to see the spam but still not good that it's there. From time to time something on WhatsApp comes through by people from Africa claiming they've got job and investment opportunities but the start of this year Signal has significantly picked up in spam and there seems to be no filter. So far 100% of them want me to invest into bitcoin.

 

All of messages are non specific to me/generic so that they can be copy pasted to hundreds of thousands of people at once.

[Spotty]

1 hour ago, venomtail said:

All of messages are non specific to me/generic so that they can be copy pasted to hundreds of thousands of people at once.

I would guess that it's probably just a big wave of spam going around Signal at the moment and they're just sending out the messages to whoever they can. Probably not specific to you.

I don't use Signal so I'm not sure what you can do to prevent it. Maybe see if there's any settings that will block anyone who you do not have added as a contact from contacting you.

[E-waste]

On 1/17/2024 at 9:08 AM, venomtail said:

I'm receiving emails, normal messages and calls.

Not sure what to do about the phone call spam, but Mozilla and duckduckgo have email relays you can use.  They are email aliases, which you can give out to websites that forward to your regular email.  As a bonus, both attempt to block any hidden trackers.  You can even have

@duck.com email, which strips trackers, and forward that to the mozilla email relay, also stripping trackers, then have that forward to your regular email.  I had that setup and will setup again, as it seems like an interesting way to filter emails.  Also, any alias account (you can have multiple) that gets too much spam, just turn it off.

[venomtail]

11 hours ago, E-waste said:

Not sure what to do about the phone call spam, but Mozilla and duckduckgo have email relays you can use.  They are email aliases, which you can give out to websites that forward to your regular email.  As a bonus, both attempt to block any hidden trackers.  You can even have

@duck.com email, which strips trackers, and forward that to the mozilla email relay, also stripping trackers, then have that forward to your regular email.  I had that setup and will setup again, as it seems like an interesting way to filter emails.  Also, any alias account (you can have multiple) that gets too much spam, just turn it off.

Yea saw Firefox letting me know such a feature now exist. Yet to try it out tho but kinda want to.