how do scam messages work? They’re not physically typing in a username/phone number right? How does your info end up being used?
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Not really any differently than a company keeps info of their customers in databases and uses it to systematically contact them.
When such a company has a security breach and gets their data stolen, the info usually ends up for sale through darkweb channels, and a scammer can buy it from there to do some systematic contacting of their own. Particularly enterprising groups might cut out the middle man and do the breaching themselves.
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