Unethical Life Pro Tips

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An Unethical Life Pro Tip (or ULPT) is a tip that improves your life in a meaningful way, perhaps at the expense of others and/or with questionable legality. Share your best tips you've picked up throughout your life, and learn from others!

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Tips must be unethical, tips that are ethical will be removed.
Tips must provide some benefit to you.
Post titles must begin with "ULPT" or "ULPT Request", and should be descriptive. The title should explain the gist of the ULPT without needing a description. Post that are walls of text will be deleted at the mods discretion.
No tips about rape, murder, suicide, or any tips that violate Geneva Convention laws.
No tip lists, each individual post should be about a single tip. This includes links to articles that list tips.

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Is a debt collector texting you? Don't block the text number. Reply. (self.unethicallifeprotips)

submitted 1 month ago by Jollyllama to c/unethicallifeprotips

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Debt collectors pay to send you SMS messages, around $.003-$.01 it doesn't sound like alot but trust me it adds up. They pay the same rate for incoming SMS and even more for MMS. So this holiday season, instead of blocking why not sign their numbers up for every spam SMS under the sun?

Happy Holidays!

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[–] Jollyllama 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's one take. If they have your info then somebody told them you owe money and they will not stop until you force them to by blocking or calling them and convincing them there is nothing for them. In my experience the right thing is report them to the CFPB, FTC, FCC or whoever takes complaints. That will put a top to them for a moment until they register a new LLC and start sending again. If everyone spam replied it would hit their wallets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Someone recently posted that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RV_SdCfZ-0s an AI granny, wasting scammer's time. I think we need more like that. 😆

[–] Jollyllama 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They need to make an open source SMS version that just spams the collector number.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd really love to have an open-source version of her. I'm sure the community could come up with a few more ways to apply the concept. And it'd finally be some very useful use-case for AI 😅