Text messages from strangers?
 

I wanted to see if you guys know what is happening.
These are copys of what I posted on other sites.

They are using the "reply" button and not entering a phone number.
Sprint switched us to a Touch and a Centro. So far we haven't gotten any more, but we don't get them every day. It could be 5 minuted or 5 months between them.
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Has anyone got a message that was sent to someone else.
I have gotten a few that come from people that DO NOT have my number & DID NOT put my number in their phone.

Person A sends person B a TM, person B gets the TM and so do I. (Its never anything good.)

Its not Spam, its just someone sending stuff and I get it sent to me.

I called Sprint, they said "That can't happen" and hung up on me.
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(posted last year on www.Sprintusers.com )
Treo 650: The last person I got one from (2nd one in 24 hrs) told me that their intended recipient did get the text message. They had no idea that it was sent to me. The only similarity between our two phone numbers was the area code.

6600: I got two about 2 months ago and have not had any since.
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Never happened to me.

same here, never heard of this before.

very odd. any 3rd party TM software on ur phones?

Try reprogramming the phone you will need your MSL and MSID. see if that works. Ive actually seen it once in then service center i just reprogramed and it cleared it up

Happend to a phone we bought used and just had to do a reset and never it never happend again. It sent about 3 in a row. Hope this helps ya.

We didn't have any 3rd party stuff.

Sprint gave us new phones and so far (1 week) we havn't gotten any more, but we never got them every day either.

Sprint opened and closed, with out fixing anything, 3 trouble tickets. All opened and closed in 2 weeks.

even though this is rare it can happen due to server side issues/hiccups but your chances of this happening increase when you msid does not match your actual phone number (you have no control over this, only the carrier does during programming/activating your phone line). for example most users msid and tel no. match but mine doesnt it is a totally different tel no than my actual one. this causes crosses in the line just like our good ole landlines where your phone would ring when your neighbor was actually getting called.

Well this has never happened to me either and my MSID# and MDN# are different. I assume they are different because I made the switch From a Nextel Blackberry To Sprint when the merger first happened a few years ago.

I don't know about the old phones, but the new ones have the MSID and phone number the same.


The TMs we would get would come from all over the US. I don't know for sure but I don't think any of the TMs we got were going to the same people. (Did that make sence?)

It's so funny that this thread surfaced right now as the last couple of days, I too have been receiving random TM's (total of 3 from 2 different numbers).

I have a verizon aircard that work provided to me. When I insert it I get text messages from the same person all the time. And they are intended for someone else, even a different phone number then the one on my card. I don't mind she seems cute.

Please call Sprint and let them know about it. Every time I call they say "I have never seen that happen"



The ones I get are all from different numbers.

I've had a buncha these from people all over the u.s. most of them weren't sent to anyone even in my area code... I called sprint, and they told me they had no idea and told me to reset my phone ;) and btw, when this first started, I had a sanyo mm8300 so its not just a ppc problem

Re: Text messages from strangers?
 

Must have solved the issue...

Re: Text messages from strangers?
 

Not sure. We didn't get them every day. Its been about 4 weeks and no new ones, but I have only had the new phone for 2 weeks.

I checked my MSID (on the 6600) it was the same as the phone number.

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Well let me know if it does just kind of wondering about it... Good luck..:drunken: