Edit: legal suggestions only, please

Look, do ya want it to be effective, or not?

You must be referring to ActBlue. I just send the links back to them at info@actblue.com. There needs to be a class action lawsuit against those assholes. We donated to Sanders back in 2016. They sold our info to EVERY democratic campaign in the entire country.

They pretty much hone in on people who reply. That shows an operating phone number and the get paid per interaction so they don't care if it's effective.

That said, I did get a couple months peace one time by sending gore from r/medizzy

They also don't use an infinite number of spoofed numbers, they try to limit the area code to one they believe is close to you. If you block and block and block eventually after a month they'll start to thin out.

Definitely don’t reply. I don’t think the mark as spam does anything for SMS. You can report to FTC but they probably have a huge bank of numbers so doesn’t make a huge difference.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls-and-texts#political-robo

Maybe you can set up an automation on your phone to automatically block or delete messages with certain criteria (e.g. keywords, number status/unknown)

For some reason if I reply to them with an image they don't usually send any more. I don't know if it's because their message handlers can't process an MMS or if it intentionally gets added to an ignore list because of data costs.

I usually choose that particular Internet-famous image of a.... Well endowed black man. You probably know the one.

I just do what you are doing

But I've always wanted to look into those SIM services that let you text through a desktop app or browser. Then you could set up some sort of script that takes numbers from a CSV or something, uses text you curate in a dictionary to automatically spam these people back.

I think you should separate out your goals, is it to irritate (revenge motivated), or just to be left alone by them?

Because if it's to irritate, maybe you just shouldn't bother. A world with more and more irritated people probably isn't where you want to live, and probably isn't going to be a kinder world.

I donated a measley $10 to Dan Osbornes campaign. I'm getting endless texts for Kansas, Georgia you name it democrats

“I’ll give you $5 to release the Epstein Files.”

Lenny can be automated

Spamblocker

https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker

Add your number to the do not call list, if they don't respect it, there are huge fines