# I'll be danged. Looks like I got a job (racist threats by text) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 10, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051 "2024-11-10T23:48:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/1 "2024-11-10T23:48:56Z")
I have 2 phones. A regular one that was my daughter’s old IPhone. Piece of junk. But it gets calls and texts. Mostly from medical stuff. I don’t block stuff on it. Because you never know what number a doctors office or lab thing is gonna use. I don’t need to miss these. But the phone gets loads of spam and phishing notifications. Aggravating, but I don’t have to look at it much. My sooper-seekret phone I have filters on. It’s really not so secret, anymore. So I am cleaning out the crap on the iPhone. And there’s a text. It was to my real name. No medical thing would come today. I decided to open it. Ms. Beckdawrek- As you are a n\*\*\*\*r, you are scheduled to work at picking cotton at the nearest plantation. A van will collect you. Thank you, ??? As I’m kinda not in a condition to do field work, I’m pretty sure they’ll get 1/2 a day outta me. At best. Seems like a waste of time to send a van all the way out here for one scrawny, sickly woman. Ivy said, there’s no cotton plantations around here. Not to mention cotton has already been harvested this year. By machines. (I realize this is crap some idiot did on purpose to cause problems. I’m not seriously worried about it.) I was alarmed to see the racist wording. And my name up top. Sad. And it pisses me a little. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/2 "2024-11-10T23:51:24Z")
This looks like something that a sane police department would follow up on. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/3 "2024-11-10T23:57:08Z")
We don’t have that. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/4 "2024-11-11T00:00:10Z")
It’s been on the local news that folks have been receiving these calls. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/5 "2024-11-11T00:12:33Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > It’s been on the local news that folks have been receiving these calls. Yup, been seeing the same thing for a few days now. > **[Authorities work to find the source of racist texts sent to Black people...](https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/09/us/racist-texts-black-people-investigation-what-we-know/index.html)** > > Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country threatening them with slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/6 "2024-11-11T00:17:16Z")
Beck, those texts [have been sent out to Black people all over the country.](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy93dp4zk3o) The particularly noxious bigot or bigoted group behind these must think you’re Black. Also, some of the messages specifically mentioned the Trump campaign. The campaign, of course, denies any affiliation with the messages. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/7 "2024-11-11T00:22:47Z")
This is why I didn’t hear about it. I’m avoiding news. Thank you, I figured y’all would know. I specifically didn’t mention who it was signed by. The office of the President-elect. I ain’t typing his name. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/8 "2024-11-11T00:25:10Z")
I avoided the news on Tuesday and Wednesday because I was nervous and then devastated. On Thursday, I scanned the headlines. This new story was so absurd that I had to read it to convince myself it’s true. As you found out, it is. Sorry you got this scum\*. \*It’s worse than spam. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/9 "2024-11-11T00:30:02Z")
Nice, Nellie. Good word. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/10 "2024-11-11T00:30:56Z")
Well, _scam_ was taken. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/11 "2024-11-11T00:56:37Z")
This is digesting. I encountered some racism in Walmart today (I posted the details in a different thread). Buckle up. It’s going to be a long, hard ride. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/12 "2024-11-11T01:23:29Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > It’s going to be a long, hard ride. Tee Hee! 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/13 "2024-11-11T15:14:55Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > This looks like something that a sane police department would follow up on. And how would they do that? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/14 "2024-11-11T15:21:59Z")
My DIL is a licensed Investigator. She researches online stuff for insurance companies. She said it’s unsearchable by the information available. It’s just a set of numbers. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/15 "2024-11-11T15:25:22Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > And how would they do that? The Justice Department, and various states, are investigating it, and working to track down the instigators. This AP story indicates that the people behind it used VPNs, and numerous phone numbers, to attempt to cover their tracks. It’ll be very interesting to see if they can actually track anyone down. > [@](#): > > Whoever sent the messages used a VPN to obscure their origin, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said Thursday morning. > [@](#): > > Phone service provider TextNow said that “one or more of our accounts” were used to send the racist text messages and that it quickly disabled those accounts for violating its terms of service. > > “As part of our investigation into these messages, we learned they have been sent through multiple carriers across the US and we are working with partners and law enforcement cooperatively to investigate this attack,” the Canada-based company said in a statement Friday. > > Major providers AT&T and Verizon both said it was an industry-wide problem and referred comment Friday to the CTIA, a wireless communications trade group. > > The U.S. wireless industry has been working in recent days to block thousands of the texts and the numbers sending them, said CTIA spokesperson Nick Ludlum. An industry group initiative is working with law enforcement and has “identified platforms bad actors used to send these messages,” he said. > **[FBI, Justice Department investigating racist mass texts sent following the...](https://apnews.com/article/racist-text-messages-slavery-investigations-election-efc248569cb48e056931ed3e8470ae65)** > > Several federal and state agencies are investigating how racist mass texts were sent to Black people across the country in the wake of the presidential election this week. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/16 "2024-11-11T15:32:12Z")
1000s? Good grief. Sounds a bit like an organized plan. I’m not black. I don’t think they were very good at their _targeting_ skills. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/17 "2024-11-11T17:28:54Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > And how would they do that? > > The Justice Department, and various states, are investigating it, and working to track down the instigators. This AP story indicates that the people behind it used VPNs, and numerous phone numbers, to attempt to cover their tracks. It’ll be very interesting to see if they can actually track anyone down. > > > [@](#): > > > > Whoever sent the messages used a VPN to obscure their origin, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said Thursday morning. > > > [@](#): > > > > Phone service provider TextNow said that “one or more of our accounts” were used to send the racist text messages and that it quickly disabled those accounts for violating its terms of service. > > > > “As part of our investigation into these messages, we learned they have been sent through multiple carriers across the US and we are working with partners and law enforcement cooperatively to investigate this attack,” the Canada-based company said in a statement Friday. > > > > Major providers AT&T and Verizon both said it was an industry-wide problem and referred comment Friday to the CTIA, a wireless communications trade group. > > > > The U.S. wireless industry has been working in recent days to block thousands of the texts and the numbers sending them, said CTIA spokesperson Nick Ludlum. An industry group initiative is working with law enforcement and has “identified platforms bad actors used to send these messages,” he said. > > [FBI, Justice Department investigating racist mass texts sent following the election | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/racist-text-messages-slavery-investigations-election-efc248569cb48e056931ed3e8470ae65) Right. And that’s pretty much the only people who could have a chance at tracking it down. But when someone says “police department” they aren’t talking about the FBI or the NSA. This feels like troll farm activity using information leaked to the dark web. Certainly nothing that can be handled lower than the federal level ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/18 "2024-11-11T19:29:37Z")
The federal level!? 😱 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/19 "2024-11-12T00:24:08Z")
Even if the local department can’t do the full investigation on their own, they can still gather information, like who was targeted, and pass that on to the FBI. I.e., “following up” on it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051/20 "2024-11-12T01:10:40Z")
I got a repeat today from another string of numbers and letters. My DIL recorded and saved it. Looking in to calling someone. I blocked both sets of letters and numbers from the phone. I’m pretty sure the FBI, part of the federal government, people who want to keep their jobs, I assume, have a file 13 just for these reports. I’m not scared or upset. Just bothers me there are evil people able to do this on a large scale. For what? S & Gs. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-be-danged-looks-like-i-got-a-job-racist-threats-by-text/1010051.md?page=2)