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by renewiltord 2134 days ago
So I got this spam link via SMS. And I did something like this. I was all like "Haha! I will outsmart these mutton-brains with my `curl` on EC2!"

Instead, what happened is that the URL was unique and it validated my phone number. Now I constantly get that variety of spam. NUuuuuuuuuu

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Seeing that most of the URL's have unique strings in them that could be expected right? ;)
Worse: some SMS apps will automatically try to fetch thumbnails...
OOF

The bastards are getting smarter