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Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by shostack on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:10PM (#31951250)
If there's back and forth interaction I wonder if it is to aid improving their "legitimacy footprint" from metadata or something to avoid spam blockers.
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Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by bequanna on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:52PM (#31951876)
This is a good guess and if true, pretty damn smart.

Essentially reverse engineering the spam model by brute force.

If they are doing this at scale they can experiment with # of conversations, length, and other variables to see what is needed to bypass spam blockers with high probability.

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