The Daily Digital Assault
Spam Nation
Okay it’s absolute ridiculous with all these tactics and how bold these scammers have gotten. The volume of fake texts, robocalls, and phishing emails is out of control, and they’re getting more sophisticated with their BS every day.
Those “cloud service expiring” texts are the worst - like they’re fishing with the most generic bait possible, hoping someone will panic and click. And the toll road scams? Come on, at least do basic research about whether your target area even has toll booths before you press send.
Then there are those fake blessing scams on social media are particularly insulting to people’s intelligence. “Drop your cash app and I’ll bless you” - seriously? Nobody with actual money to give away is randomly DMing strangers on X asking for payment details. It’s garbage targeting people who might be desperate or vulnerable.
What really gets me is how these scammers have zero shame about wasting everyone’s time and mental energy. We’re all trying to live our lives, work, pay bills, take care of our families - and these parasites are constantly interrupting with their dumb ass schemes.
The phone carriers and platforms could do way more to stop this crap, but they seem content to let us all suffer through it. Meanwhile, we’re playing defense - got more blocks than the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line- when we shouldn’t have to deal with this nonsense in the first place.
It’s exhausting having to constantly be on guard against scammers when you’re just trying to check your messages or answer your phone.