Long story short I have a friend who’s dating someone extremely abusive and is trying to end things with them. This psycho uses his phone to harass her by calling/texting over and over and over again and I want to render his phone useless.

I’ve tried to find some Text Bombers on GitHub, but none of them seem to work when I test them on my own phone.

Is there a working text bomber out there?

  • Even if that works… now what?
    They’ll magically start being reasonable and sensible?
    Doubt.

    Blocking their number would be the first step.
    Maybe filing a report both with police and the service provider.
    Getting a new number might be something to consider.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, of course. Two wrongs certainly add up to a right.

    If it really is actually an abusive situation, and not just something she is saying for attention or “victim points” or whatever, then she needs to physically leave to a different location. Living in the same home is a bad idea in that situation. Then, she needs to block the phone number.

    Retaliation is never a good idea. You have no idea how he will respond, and depending on your local law, what you’re thinking of doing could be illegal. In which case, you could be fined or spend time in jail, while he smiles all the way to the bank. Would your retaliation be worth it then?

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    1 year ago

    No. Security people are fast. If such a tool worked, a security update would have been pushed to address them before they had time to become available to laypeople. Either on the phones themselves or at the service providers.

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      1 year ago

      Lol we are not that fast. That’s why phone number spoofing and spam calls are still incredibly rampant