The university allows URLs as a “person name”, so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i’m getting bombarded by “legit” emails with a spam url as in “hi SPAM_URL”

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      10 months ago

      Possibly not actually his phone, could just be the scam’s phone

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      10 months ago

      I’m totally signing him up for the all my favorite shelters… they send cat and dog photos to your phone.

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        10 months ago

        That would be extremely dangerous for someone with an overactive sense of empathy and limited impulse control.