Arizona (Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Glendale) Cracking Down on Text Messaging

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If you are sending Text Messages to Arizona (Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Glendale) - which apparently investors love doing, beware that "the times they are a changin'"

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Arizona House advances bill to ensure 'Do-Not-Call' list will block spam texts

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

Arizona lawmakers are advancing legislation that would allow residents to opt out of getting junk text messages.

House Bill 2498 would revise the rules governing Arizona's Do-Not-Call registry by allowing the list to apply to text messages in addition to phone calls.

Current law states that anyone who registers on the Do-Not-Call list cannot be contacted over the phone by solicitors or sellers.

HB 2498 expands the list's scope by prohibiting the sending of text messages to numbers registered on the Do-No-Call list. Someone who violates this provision can be cited with a $1,000 civil penalty.

The Arizona House Committee on Commerce voted Tuesday to advance HB 2498 through the Legislature.

The bill must still be approved by the Arizona Senate and Gov. Katie Hobbs before it can become law.

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Quote from @Colleen F.:

@Account Closed  I just love when they blow up your phone about a house you don't even own...  That said how would you enforce this, do you have to have an AZ  number in those areas?   

It's called Skip Tracing. These services provide up to 6 numbers for each name/address you give them. The service will look for any phone number  in the database used that is attached to that address, any person and their phone number attached to that address and anyone who is related to anyone who used that address.

Yes, they get it wrong a lot. Probably a 40% - 50% accuracy rate for the better services that cost more.

They have no way of knowing that someone changed their phone number. Many change their number because they were getting too many random solicitations. So the next time the number is assigned, that poor schmuck gets the random phone calls and texts.

Then the sophisticated investors (mostly wholesalers) use services that send out 1,000 texts at once. I read about one wholesaler that sends out 100,000 texts a month. And he sends out about 100,000 mailers a month. 

I can think of 6 wholesalers in Phoenix alone, that are very big on youtube that train other people around the country to do the same thing. 

It doesn't matter what the prefix is, since a large proportion of people move every year & are from somewhere else and keep their old phone number. I get texts and offers on properties I haven't had for years in a different state.

So, I went to using 3 phones. 

One for my wife and friends.

One for buying properties.

One for contacts in the industry.

Patriot Mobile https://www.patriotmobile.com charges $25 per month per line and you can easily change the number if you get too much spam.

I don't use Google Phone since they store all communications and phone numbers and texts and so on. I just think it's creepy.