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(sorry--the above post looks like I'm spamming this website---but that's exactly the spam text message that I received on my cell phone... I don't have a text messaging package for my phone, so their spam has cost me about $0.40)

I just got this text, I'd really like to know how they got my number.

Wow im not the only one who got this txt these guys are from california and im rather curious how they got my number. However i would like it to stop since ive just received another one while writing this message

I have rcd this spam text from three different originating numbers from different states over a three day period, but the same web address.  Probably a combination of random number generation + text message from an email application (this is free to the sender!) + number spoofing.   I have sent complaint simultaneously to FTC/FCC, State Attorney General as well as my local large market newspaper consumer editor.  I'm in Ohio where Payday loans are illegal and these are attempts to circumvent the law.