The Storm March 23, 2026 david
DEA Phantom
A phantom-account artifact — a DEA Special Agent recruitment SMS routed through GovDelivery's lnks.gd shortener to a phone that has never subscribed to DEA communications. Different vertical (federal-government recruiting list) from the others on the site.
A recruitment SMS from a toll-free number — "DEA: Find out what it takes to become a DEA Special Agent. View our frequently asked questions: https://lnks.gd/3/3THh5nW" The URL shortener `lnks.gd` is GovDelivery, the federal government's official SMS subscription gateway. This is genuinely from the DEA's recruitment outreach system.
I have never expressed interest in a DEA Special Agent career. I have never signed up for DEA communications. My phone number is in the DEA's GovDelivery recruitment list anyway — a phantom account in a federal-government recruiting CRM, in a different vertical from the Accredo pharmacy, the Circle K convenience-store loyalty, the New Mexico Rail Runner transit alert. Same underlying mechanism: my number sits in a third party's database as a contact identifier on an account that is not mine.
