A Strange Glitch Sent Tons Of Mysterious Text Messages To Phones Nationwide

Huffington Post ^ | 11/7/2019 | Jenna Amatulli

[Beave Meister]

This happened ot me this morning. My girlfriend who is in Colorado sent me a text "LOL...what? and sent her a text What? And she said "your text at 2:42 a.m." what do you mean "Take it off?" and I told her several times I was sound asleep at 2:42 a.m. She sent me a screen shot. And I told her I did not send that text. She didn't believe me. Then she asked me if it was meant for someone else. I went to my Verizon store and asked them, they had no idea what happened. Then she found this article. case solved.

[no-to-illegals]

Mine tried to dial 1 800 from a message. First for that

[steve86]

Me also but mine were emails. Personal conversations between people whose names I know, but have never met or corresponded.

The fact mine were emails throws some doubt on their “explanation” involving sms only.

[Norski]

From: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/amazon-alexa-apple-siri-google-assistant-hack-lasers

“Voice assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google Assistant can be hacked by shining a laser on the devices’ microphones, according to an international team of researchers.

Dubbed “Light Commands,” the hack “allows attackers to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice assistants,” according to a statement from experts at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the University of Michigan.”
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Perhaps a variation of the above is happening.

[no-to-illegals]

Unknown .... unknown

[rockrr]

Sounds like my stalker...

[csvset]

Move zig .For great justice. All your base are beling to us.

[UCANSEE2]

I guess all those AI devices , such as SIRI, are getting lonely.

[kaehurowing]

It could be aliens.

[RightGeek]

The issue was reportedly caused by a maintenance update made to “messaging platforms of multiple carriers in the US.” https://www.wired.com/story/mysterious-text-messages-valentines-day/

[ctdonath2]

“Tons”? of text messages?

[easternsky]

SICK and not Funny

[Openurmind]

Sounds like a text temporary data storage bank went haywire. lol

[SkyPilot]

Probably part of the Deep State’s plans. Another mass murder shooting could be in the works.

[BunnySlippers]

I’ve been. having problems with strange things on my iPhone with AT&T Service. Sometimes the messages are extremely odd.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

What does a ton of texts weigh?

[Deaf Smith]

What everyone involved has is common is probably a specific Free app that does as expected....takes all your phone data and abuses it.

Powered by Google.

Candy Crush would be a example.

[grey_whiskers]

I’d change my screen name too if I were you.

Just to be on the safe side.

[Bigg Red]

The Russians

[ifinnegan]

Yay!

It proves it’s space people!