Chinese Criminals Made More Than $1b From Those Annoying Texts
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tencentshill
3 months ago
This is the kind of thing Trump should be sanctioning China for. Something that directly harms the American people and makes them poorer - especially His older, uninformed supporters with retirement accounts to target.
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