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Did You Get One? Mysterious 'Ghost' Text Messages Confuse Thousands
Thousands of people were left in bewilderment after receiving waves of mysterious text messages dating back months ago. The “ghost messages” were sent to both iPhone and Android users this week, and reportedly were prevalent among all major cellular carriers. In total, approximately 168,000 messages were sent due to an “internal maintenance cycle,” according to CNN. According to The Verge, many of those messages were originally sent on or around Valentine’s Day 2019 but were never received at the time. The glitch was reportedly the fault of a third-party vendor. Syniverse, which pro…
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Here's How Many Robocalls New Yorkers Were Bombarded With In April
Robocalls continue to be a scourge for New Yorkers, with millions of callers being flooded by calls “at all hours of the day and night.” In April, New Yorkers received 290.3 million robocalls, which is an average of 112 calls per second and 11 calls per New Yorker. In April, there were 176 million robocalls made to numbers in New York City and Long Island, and there have been more than 720 million robocalls reported since the year started, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer. In response, Schumer is backing legislation that would give federal investigators the tools to trace, prosecute and fi…