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Some random website knows which school i go to, this is the second time i have received this message

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 105 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Sounds like a really spammy and annoying way to promote an app. I assume someone else who has your phone number signed up on their app and gave access to all their contacts. Then the app sends out spam texts to get you to sign up.

Depending on where you are located, you might be able to report it. Otherwise just drop them a bad review, or name and shame them here

edit, I assume it's this: https://slickapp.co/

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 4 points 11 months ago
[–] tanja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Their website is slickapp.co (without the m at the end), but their Android package name is com.slickapp.

Isn't that a bit of an issue?
For example, when handling URLs?

[–] biscat@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't most Android packages begin with com. ?

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not really.

Android apps can declare which urls they accept as deep links. Once that is registered with the system (ie after install) then links of that type can be opened by the app. It doesn't have to match the package name.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The package name should, however, match a domain owned by the publisher of the package.

[–] ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

What happens is some kid gets a gossip app which takes their contact data and then uses it to send this shit.

I used to get it pretty often too when I was in school.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 11 months ago

Those LinkedIn emails are getting out of hand.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This reminds me of the anonymous confession thing that made it's rounds on Facebook several years back. My cousin would post links to his every day with messages like, "Let's see what you've got" or "Give me your worst" attached to it. I suspect he was desperately fishing for compliments, or hoping for anonymous love confessions from the girls he was flirting with, as he would also post scrambled love letters on his wall that he must have figured these girls had time to sit down and eagerly unscramble (ie; I VELO UYO YLSHAE RMOE NTHA HTE UNS VELOS TEH ONOM). I always made sure to anonymously let him know what a stupid, annoying fuck he was being.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I had a dollar for every stupid thing I've deleted that Facebook has reminded me I posted in high school or college, I'd be debt free.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

I'm glad MySpace got nuked and deleted all my old stuff.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yall, high-school yearbooks are public records.

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there a place you can access these yearbooks, because I'd really like to see mine.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The school you went to will have them on file. Otherwise, there are websites that you can order or view them.

[–] NabeGewell@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

2010 Facebook is that you?

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't keep us in suspense! What did they say? /s

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

I know what you did last summer...

...

Bwahaha! gotcha!

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

As a homeschooled kid, let them come.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They might not know know, but there sure can be a lot of meta data one can use to determine that a person goes to school, where it might be, and what school it most likely is.

Or someone else straight up posted the information publicly. That's always a possibility you have to consider.

Either way, isolating certain websites and services from each other and/or the rest is certainly a good practice to limit what they can gather about you. If you don't do that already, that is.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this is the primacy for social security and we are going to cancel your social security if you do not click this link and fill in the information for which is required.

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Those goddamned primates always trying to steal people's social security.