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These people are terrorists to my email filters, what can I do to make their behavior really hurt?


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fasa9910/04/2024

Since they use VoIP SMS and "first name" it's pretty hard to resort to the old fashioned doxxing despite living in the golden age of data leaks.

I would suggest simply wasting their time as much as possible (I've lead on such people pretending to be naive and caused great frustration). But ideally, not to waste your own time.

I think in the near future android-local chatbots will be further along, or iphone-local, and ideally one can run the chatbot. and you can just set the chatbot to "waste this person's time" as we will have chatbots for "flirt with this potential date and schedule drinks". Of course the endpoint of such a world is chatbots all around and no humans.

blackeyeblitzar10/01/2024

For text spam you can follow the steps in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704119

For email spam: you can use your email provider’s report spam feature so more of their emails end up in spam folders and their money is wasted. You can look at the email headers to figure out which platform sent the email (like Mailgun or Sendgrid or whatever) and report the email to them, which may cause their account to be shut down and then to be banned as a business from that platform. You can use the FTC and FCC reporting websites from my other comment. You could also report each incident to your state’s authorities like your attorney general’s office, by saying you suspect potential fraudulent practices or abusive practices or violation of privacy or whatever.

immibis10/01/2024

Nothing legal.