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A Message for Kwame Raoul


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I received the following text message about 30 min ago.

 

Hello <real life name>. I'm Scott, a volunteer with Kwame Raoul for Illinois Attorney General. We can trust Kwame, a former prosecutor, to focus on our safety as AG. Will you be a voter for Kwame on Nov 6?

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I never, ever give my cell number out to anyone, except close friends and family, whom I swear to secrecy upon pain of death. My cell is for me to call others, not for others to call me.

  • How did Kwame get my number?
  • How did Kwame get my IRL name associated with the number?
I thought cell numbers were unlisted by default.
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I received the following text message about 30 min ago.

 

Hello <real life name>. I'm Scott, a volunteer with Kwame Raoul for Illinois Attorney General. We can trust Kwame, a former prosecutor, to focus on our safety as AG. Will you be a voter for Kwame on Nov 6?

From: +13124710639

I never, ever give my cell number out to anyone, except close friends and family, whom I swear to secrecy upon pain of death. My cell is for me to call others, not for others to call me.

  • How did Kwame get my number?
  • How did Kwame get my IRL name associated with the number?
I thought cell numbers were unlisted by default.

 

Any number of marketing data firms could have sold this info.

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Any number of marketing data firms could have sold this info.

Which begs the question "How did marketing firms get the info

One way that they get the info is some app that allows you, by you I mean a family or friend or someone you gave your contact information to etc, to upload or access your contact list from your smart phone... Voila! Some third party paid the application developer for the contact lists it has obtained by the users who allowed access to the contact list.

 

To be honest I fail how to see that it is legal for the following to occur at a profit.

 

Example - Johnny gets Janes phone number, email, etc. Johnny allows ACME application to access his contact list on his smart phone. ACME sells janes contact information to a DuMass Marketing company.... Did Jane somehow authorize her information to be sold from ACME to DueMass?

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Any number of marketing data firms could have sold this info.

Which begs the question "How did marketing firms get the info?"

 

 

It's actually much simpler, they just bought copies of your voter registration information from your County, it's available to political organizations under IL law, so they can simply request copies and pay a small processing fee. And even though the phone field on the voter registration form is optional, I'm betting most fill it out.

 

Example:

 

https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/service/registration-file-requests

https://www.lakecountyil.gov/314/List-of-Registered-Voters-Voting-History

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It's actually much simpler, they just bought copies of your voter registration information from your County, it's available to political organizations under IL law, so they can simply request copies and pay a small processing fee. And even though the phone field on the voter registration form is optional, I'm betting most fill it out.

I don't put my cell number on forms. I don't give my cell number to online services for 2FA. (BTW, Google recently admitted they sell numbers of people who use their cells for 2FA.) Virtually no one gets my number from me.

 

Well, I wasn't going to vote for him, anyway, but if he (or his campaign) violates privacy so casually, I want to cast negative votes for him.

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I'm 99% certain at least some of them are buying (or stealing) info from utility companies.

 

Many of our bills are in my wife's name, as she's the one who had them turned on when we bought our house, but I set up the online access with my information for paying bills, receiving statements, notifications, etc.

 

I've gotten several political texts addressed to my wife, not to me.

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I'm 99% certain at least some of them are buying (or stealing) info from utility companies.

Many of our bills are in my wife's name, as she's the one who had them turned on when we bought our house, but I set up the online access with my information for paying bills, receiving statements, notifications, etc.

I've gotten several political texts addressed to my wife, not to me.

I think this is the case as something similar happened to me. As far as them being Robo messages, I’m not sure. I responded to the one I got last night with, “Go yourself and Kwame too.” A real person answered, apologized for offending me, and asked why I wouldn’t vote for him.

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I'm 99% certain at least some of them are buying (or stealing) info from utility companies.

Many of our bills are in my wife's name, as she's the one who had them turned on when we bought our house, but I set up the online access with my information for paying bills, receiving statements, notifications, etc.

I've gotten several political texts addressed to my wife, not to me.

I think this is the case as something similar happened to me. As far as them being Robo messages, I’m not sure. I responded to the one I got last night with, “Go yourself and Kwame too.” A real person answered, apologized for offending me, and asked why I wouldn’t vote for him.

 

Robo's have voice recognition and it's getting better - then there is the reaction TO the words recognized as dictated by the scripts.

That real person that the call is routed to is a real mentally hazardous spot to be in.

 

The thing is, now what ELSE was done with that (YOUR!!) information that your response provided them with.

 

A simple hangup without invective or vitriol tells them FAR less.

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This guy scares the heck out of me, when your motto is " This is my life's work and I'm just getting started" it's plain frightening ! He's got to be stopped before he climbs too far up the political ladder.

 

What is scarier... he says "Health care is a human right"...

No...no its not. A human right does not inherently remove from one and give to another.

"Health care as a human right" effectively makes doctors slaves to the state to provide your 'human right"..

 

GFY Kommie...

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This guy scares the heck out of me, when your motto is " This is my life's work and I'm just getting started" it's plain frightening ! He's got to be stopped before he climbs too far up the political ladder.

 

What is scarier... he says "Health care is a human right"...

No...no its not. A human right does not inherently remove from one and give to another.

"Health care as a human right" effectively makes doctors slaves to the state to provide your 'human right"..

 

GFY Kommie...

Healthcare is a Kwammunist right

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I'm 99% certain at least some of them are buying (or stealing) info from utility companies.

Many of our bills are in my wife's name, as she's the one who had them turned on when we bought our house, but I set up the online access with my information for paying bills, receiving statements, notifications, etc.

I've gotten several political texts addressed to my wife, not to me.

I think this is the case as something similar happened to me. As far as them being Robo messages, I’m not sure. I responded to the one I got last night with, “Go yourself and Kwame too.” A real person answered, apologized for offending me, and asked why I wouldn’t vote for him.

 

Robo's have voice recognition and it's getting better - then there is the reaction TO the words recognized as dictated by the scripts.

That real person that the call is routed to is a real mentally hazardous spot to be in.

 

The thing is, now what ELSE was done with that (YOUR!!) information that your response provided them with.

 

A simple hangup without invective or vitriol tells them FAR less.

 

 

It was actually a text message, not a call (but I guess that's even easier to route). Normally, I'd have done nothing, but I figured it was a robot and the response would go nowhere. I was a bit surprised to actually get an answer. Ultimately, the person on the other end proved to be rather polite (particularly in light of my initial response), and basically thanked me for caring enough to have an opinion.

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