Voting rights groups are sounding the alarm about anonymous text messages allegedly sent to college students in Wisconsin, threatening them with prison if they vote, according to CNN."The unsolicited text, sent from at least one 262- number to cell phones of people in their early 20s on University o...
  • GladiusB@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    You also have to consider a twenty year old and just running with the possibility. They don’t care if it’s necessarily true. They don’t have enough experience to know it’s probably not true.

    • Good_morning
      2·
      8 months ago

      I suspect more people were highly suspicious of any text from an unknown number 20 years ago.

      • GladiusB@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 months ago

        Caller ID was not in everyone’s phone 20 years ago. There were a lot more random cold calls.

        • Good_morning
          1·
          8 months ago

          Calls sure, but texts are different, at that point you paid per text, people you texted you typically knew, spam was mostly still calls