Hey, is anybody else getting their phone blown up by scammers/spammers on #Signal? I have two Signal accounts, and one of them – the rather more public one I use for business – has been getting a spam message on average every 15 minutes around the clock starting about a day ago, each time from another account. This is vaguely annoying but mostly just mystifying.
(I also got three plaintext SMS scam messages in the same time frame, which that number never gets.)
I'm wondering if it's a product of some sort of targeted if ineffectual malevolence I should take personally or just the weather on the internet these days?
If the problem is my Signal number was spidered off my professional website, is there a clever way for me to expose it to potential customers on my website while protecting it from harvesting?
Also, I'm super curious how spamming/phishing on Signal even works. Are these being sent by actual humans lovingly hand keying each of these messages, or is there an API so a computer can do it? Can *I* interact with Signal programmatically?
Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis
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