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Mixed SMS?!? Malware or what???

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  • 13-02-2013 5:11pm
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    Zulu
    Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭


    This is a strange one...

    I'm a 3 customer. So is my wife. I sent a SMS today which read:

    [SMS]Ah well, why don't you arrange to meet her on wed/thurs instead? It's not like you want to go drinking anyway, is it?[/SMS]

    Two mins later, this is the SMS my wife recieved:

    [SMS]Ah well, why don't you arrange to meet her on wed/thurs insteadwe u so much u so sexy xxxxxxx lut the whole thing! Thanks so much for yo[/SMS]

    WTF?!?

    So I rang 3, they reckon it's "impossible". Well clearly it's not - I've got the records to prove it. Whats going on? Any ideas? Is it malware on my phone; malware on her phone? Is it a network problem? How can I be sure that other SMS's I send aren't subject to the same "interference"? :confused:


    <mods feel free to move this to a more appropriate forum - if one exists>


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    Paddycrumlinman
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭Paddycrumlinman


    Could it be possible that issue be with your Wife's phone. I kind of agree with what 3 are saying. I'm thinking you sent the message and somehow on your wife's phone it could have merge with another message that she had somewhere on her phone.


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    Zulu
    Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Could be, but highly unlikely it merged with an existing SMS on her phone. I dunno.


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    .Bob
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭.Bob


    check auto prediction?

    http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/most-evil-prank-you-could-pull-iphone-user-119529


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    Zulu
    Registered Users Posts: 10,965 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Perhaps, but then I'd expect it to display the text sent in the sms thread on my phone. The weird thing is that my phone displays it exactly like it was intended...


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    p15574
    Registered Users Posts: 756 ✭✭✭p15574


    That's happened me before, but sending from 3 Webtext to my wife's 3 phone. It seemed to merge the text with another one I'd sent her some time before. As 95% of my texts would be to her, not sure if the problem is restricted to her texts from me, or if it could be mixing totally random texts from me to anyone


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    jayo2004
    Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭jayo2004


    The very same thing happened to me last year with my wife. Same thing i text her and later that night she said to me what was I on about. I told her I didn't text you anything like that. She took out her phone and showed me and I couldn't believe it. I showed her what I had sent and it was completely different. I was using an iPhone 4 and she had a sony running android. I wiped both phones the next day and didn't have a problem again. Well it is kinda hard to tell if it hasn't happened again. My phone was jailbroken and I was installing all sorts of crap on it so I put it down to that. We were both on meteor network at the time. I had forgotten all about it until I read your post. I may keep an eye on it again.


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