Has anyone ever gotten a Phantom Text?

[diabeticman]

My wife was at work and I texted my wife that our one cat finally jumpped onto on bed and laid down for a while.


This is our all white cat who let's face it is afraid of his own shadow and well has basically been camped out in our living room since we moved to the new place. except the first day and a half when he hid under the bed.

Anyways I sent her the Text:

Snowy got brave and got on the bed


Wife gets a second text she swears 5 minutes later stating:

I was at a lady's house here in town who had her homemade gloryhole. It was awesome.

The text indicated it came from my phone BUT I was home all day and have not gone anywhere. I don't even know what a gloryhole is. My wife has a simple flip phone and I do have a smart phone.

Can anyone honestly help us.

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1. ...

[diabeticman]

2. What's that mean?

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6. let's just say i'm interested in seeing the responses

[In_The_Wind]

3. WTF

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. oh boy.....I will pop some too!

[diabeticman]

5. Can you let me in on this?

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. useful info can be found at Wikipedia

glory hole

[diabeticman]

12. OMG my wife and I are stunned.

I didn't text that to my wife. can a smart phone be hacked as I am thinking or could it have been a mis text like someone texted my wife by mistake BUT it doesn't explain my phone number as sending the text.

[jberryhill]

15. Go with some kind of seizure or lapse of consciousness

Maybe you blacked out for a while and don't know you sent it.

The "I got hacked" thing didn't work out for Anthony Weiner.

Or, hide some valuables in the house, and discover them to be "stolen". Then, it musta been the thieves!

[pinboy3niner]

16. Or just do like everybody else: "Damn you, Autocorrect!"

[jberryhill]

17. Oooh, that's even better

Yeah. Definitely autocorrect.

[jberryhill]

18. But how did he know it was a "lady" on the other side?

[jberryhill]

9. Is that what you told her?

And you want us to back you up?

She's going to check the bill at the end of the month, you know.

But sure, it happens all the time. Just the other day, my wife was out shopping and she got a text from my phone that said, "Yeah, she's out shopping. Come over for a quickie."

No idea how that happened.

[Cooley Hurd]

11. .

[libdem4life]

10. Yes, and it's weird...from my niece, but it wasn't. I text about 15 minutes a month. It was a bit

alarming, two came in at the same time, but mainly just really strange texts. She about fell off her chair when I called and read them to her. Didn't save it. Never happened again.

[NuclearDem]

13. Yes, shortly followed by Attack of the Phones.

[jazzimov]

14. Sounds like someone is having fun

at your expense. There are lots of easy ways to hack a cell phone. For instance, Google phone clone.

[honeylady]

19. My phone sent a text

to the person I was getting ready to meet canceling our appointment. The text read "in a meeting, will call you later", which is a generic text in the phone. The really weird thing was that I had not called this person at all during the two days before. The phone was in my console in the car and sent the message while I was driving to see him. He got the message and left to do other things. I had to wait 1/2 hour for him to come back. So my cell phone sent a text to the person I was getting ready to meet canceling our meeting. Another time I was leaving a message on my friend's cell phone voicemail when I was interrupted by a strange, weird garbled voice saying something I couldn't understand. I'm still trying to figure out where it came from.

Cell phones can certainly do some strange things sometimes.

[TeamPooka]

20. aliens are screwing with us. nt

[tblue37]

41. Maybe bored NSA techs are entertaining themselves. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

21. No...

The only thing that comes remotely close to that is my phone used to send texts to random numbers. Like, I'd write out a text and hit send - but it wouldn't send to the person I thought I was sending it to. It'd find a random message in my inbox and send it to them. It created some awkward and embarrassing moments. Eventually, I read it was a bug for the certain phone (Droid Thunderbolt) and fixed it.

[Drunken Irishman]

22. But to help you out...

1) Check what apps you've downloaded. Sometimes, you can download a third-party app that will overtake your phone and do stuff like this (just like it can do on your home computer). Make sure your apps are all from the official store (whether it's Apple or Google).

2) What kind of phone do you have? Google it and see if anyone else is having the same problem.

3) Do you know of it ever happening before?

4) Are you using the default text messaging program? I know you can download apps to do text messaging like WhatsItApp.

[pnwmom]

31. I just got a strange text and I almost replied

asking what it was, when I realized that I probably should ignore it -- maybe someone was fishing to see if this was a real number?

The thing is, I don't do business with my smart phone and hardly anyone has this number, except for family and a few friends.

The message reads

753-5

Payment Confirmation #43 (bunch of letters) for $xxx paid 11/09/13 noted to account # (bunch of numbers) on 11/09/13.

Wouldn't a legit business identify itself?

[honeylady]

46. Its a Samsung Galaxy

I don't download apps. at all. I only use the phone for calls and texting. I never get on the internet. I've have never had anything like this happen before with any cell phone.

If I believed in ghosts, I would say it was haunted.

[pinboy3niner]

23. Once...

...but then I blocked him. Who texts in cartoon ballons, anyway?

[johnp3907]

24. I got one like that once.

It showed that it came from a friend who texts me often. It went something like "yeah we can get a hotel lol" This friend always uses capitalization and punctuation in her texts, and I've never known her to use something like "lol."

[B Calm]

25. What puzzles me is that the text indicated it was from your phone?

[notadmblnd]

26. Do you have that Siri app on your phone?

[diabeticman]

34. I haven't download any apps just the ones that came with the phone when I bought it.

[Lobo27]

27. Well, earlier this year I changed cell co's.

Gave me a new number, and the first text I got was from a guy called Jon. And he wanted to ravage Misty.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

28. I got a text once that was purportedly from my wife's Twitter account,

promoting a "work at home" scheme, allegedly being used by someone living just a few miles away to make the usual huge gobs of gelt.
I got it while shaving; had the cell phone lying on the windowsill in my bathroom. When I dressed and went downstairs and asked her about it, she had no idea what I was talking about. So I texted them back, telling them that hacking my wife's Twitter account wasn't exactly a recommendation for going in on their scheme.

[dionysus]

29. not exactly that, but i called a friend once, and instead of calling them, i was patched into

some telephone conversation that sounded like it was coming from a nursing home; some old lady talking about "poor joey and his sciatica" and her friend replying "what a shame, what a shame"

it was weird...

[Boom Sound 416]

30. I can help

You need a drill
A circular bit
And a shit load of gauze pads

[jberryhill]

33. What are the gauze pads for?

[Trekologer]

32. Just like Caller ID on phone calls, the SMS source phone number is easily spoofed

Just because the Caller ID says that the call or SMS is from someone, you shouldn't automatically assume that it is. This is especially important with banks and such.

[blogslut]

42. This is my guess

Here is some info on SMS spoofing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_spoofing

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Your phone got hacked

and yes, they can be hacked. You got an android I am guessing.

[diabeticman]

36. Yes I do. I haven't added any apps other than those that came with the phone. Is there a way to

protect it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. They do have virus checkers for android phones

http://www.redmondpie.com/android-malware-protection-how-to-protect-your-phone-from-malware-and-virus-threat-guide/

You can buy the software at places like best buy, or wherever you bought your phone.

[diabeticman]

38. thanks

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. You welcome

[Warren DeMontague]

40. As opposed to, what.. having a contractor put in the gloryhole?

I swear, people nowadays just don't have the basic level of home improvement skills they ought to.

[The Midway Rebel]

44. ...and thread win.

[Revanchist]

45. Hey, sometimes you want some experienced men working your glory hole

Otherwise who knows what you'll get

[The Midway Rebel]

43. This thread needs one of these guys.