What can I do to let people know about this marketing scheme without promoting the website?

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I received an infuriating text right now. It reads,
“Hey. A pal gave me your #, but I’m a bit shy, so I don’t wanna say who i am just yet. But if youre interested, come find me at ______.com”

What bothers me is that this is clearly an ad, but the message is a complete lie. I was tempted to visit the site out of curiosity, but I don’t want to give the marketers the satisfaction of a page view.

What can I do to protest this without giving the website more attention?

NOTE: The spelling mistakes above were in the original text, too. Carefully planned mistakes…

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better business bureau
www.bbb.org

La_chica_gomela (3599

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CustomizeGoogle allows me to disable tracking by Google Analytics, so if they’re using that at least that will hide you. And probably AdBlock will help as well. You can also just not pay the visit.

That said, you could also just pay the visit, seeing as so many people are stupid anyway, so one pageview more or less won’t matter all that much.

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I wonder about this too.
You could maybe call your phone company and tell them about the unsolicited text message. They may be willing to remove the charge and possibly look into the source.

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