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Author Topic: OH sends text to herself (or so it seems!?)  (Read 3488 times)

renluop

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OH sends text to herself (or so it seems!?)
« on: May 03, 2012, 08:38:16 PM »
Recently the text alert sounded on OH's mobile. She opened the message but there was no text visible. When she got the source detail it said the same number as her phone.

The phone had been in the bottom of her handbag since last use.

What could have happened to cause the event?
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Re: OH sends text to herself (or so it seems!?)
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2012, 09:21:30 PM »
  :hmm:  Hmm . . . What else lives in the bottom of Mrs R's handbag? (Please note, that is a rhetorical question.)

I'd suggest the incident is just filed under the category of "One of life's little mysteries."
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Re: OH sends text to herself (or so it seems!?)
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 09:44:50 PM »

I'd say most likely an accidental button press?

Alternatively, could it be a prank?   It's not difficult, if you have the right equipment, to spoof the source number on either mobile or landline networks, or to spoof the source number on text messages.  An internet search may even yield websites that will do so on your behalf, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal in the UK and so I'm not posting any links.    ;)

I strongly suspect that's the simple mechanism that the newspapers used to 'hack' voicemail; nothing clever at all really,  they simply spoof the calling number to match the handset's own number, whereupon voicemail can be accessed without a PIN.  But I suspect the networks may have tried to close that loophole by now.
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