Who am I, what am I doing… where’s the buffet. I already gave to Ike.
I know of a couple of older folks who have fallen for this and given away money (I’m talking 6 figures here) until they no longer have enough to pay the bills.
I wish our AG would make an effort to help these people instead of filing stupid publicity lawsuits that don’t help anyone.
Even running for office.
My parents gave out their phone numbers and are inundated with political text messages and scam messages that sound like they are from friends. Terrible.
I get a bunch of those, keep marking as spam and removing myself but it is unending. My phone number is on a list somewhere with my dad’s name because some of them will be addressed to him.
What I hate is when I get unsolicited political e-mails, and I tried to click the “unsubscribe” link, but the stuff still keeps coming.
Lists of donors are shared or sold. The emails are okay to deal with, but I hate text messages from PACs or campaigns. And I sometimes need to get texts from numbers outside my contact list, so limiting them to contacts isn’t optimal.
Both sides benefit, so you’ll never see this stop.
Complete Sentence.
So many better ways to blow your $$$ before you die!!!
I was able to successfully block these somehow. I was getting bombarded with text messages several weeks ago, and I just kept blocking them and reporting them as spam, and they eventually stopped. If someone important ever uses one of those numbers, they’re gonna be SOL. 
Emails were easier, but I don’t ever click “unsubscribe” because of the obvious traps there - sending them to spam and/or blocking the emails helps tremendously.