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I received an advertisement from T-Mobile in the mail today where they must have gotten my data from some website that forced me to fill out personal information

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I still get a load of spammy texts directed to the prior user of my #, and pretty clearly they're almost all produced by simple automation. But even with live callers, I believe many companies have automated a lot of that process as well. So as with email spam (etc), it might take surprisingly little effort to produce the call. So it can still be worth it for them, statistically, to harass you.