HELP! I keep getting random text messages...

[femmeartis]

this has been happening to me for at least a week or two all of a sudden.
does anyone know if this started recently or has this been going on since the G1 came out?

its so obnoxious!!!

[pr3zid3nt116]

This just started happening to me, this problem needs to be fixed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[constellanation]

http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/boar...cending&page=3

check it here

[birdman81484]

check it here

t-Mo has no idea why this is happening.....

[sushi420]

hah , so i just found this thread after reading about the problem on another forum!!

few weeks ago i got a txt from a 347 area code sayin like "damn, i wanna c a front one now"

i wrote back "who is this?"

and i get a reply of "U sent me 2 pics already now u r asking me"

i wrote back "i haven't sent anything, u sure u have the right number?"

to which i get a reply of "of course, whats your name?"

I ended it right there, i wasn't going to tell some stranger my name....but then the next day i get a MMS from the same number of girl showin her ass off.

Haven't called t-mo yet since i haven't had any more random txts...

i'm damn curious though to know whats causing it

[scrannel]

Have had my G1 for a couple of weeks, have not had this problem. However, I have never used 3G (no reception & therefore, shut off), and though I see people having this issue on Edge, is it possible that using 3G a few times is enough to "set you up" for this to happen even when you quit using 3G? Anyone out there who has NEVER used 3G and has the problem? Just a thought.

[birdman81484]

Have had my G1 for a couple of weeks, have not had this problem. However, I have never used 3G (no reception & therefore, shut off), and though I see people having this issue on Edge, is it possible that using 3G a few times is enough to "set you up" for this to happen even when you quit using 3G? Anyone out there who has NEVER used 3G and has the problem? Just a thought.

never used 3g and it happened to me. But just once.

[JuAndres86]

They should get this issue fixed its happenin 2 me now som strange dude wants pics of me now.... I'm goin 2 stop sending pic messages for the time being.

[scrannel]

From the T-mo site



Hey all!

I have an update on this MMS (picture messaging) issue:

T-Mobile engineers have identified the problem causing recipients of MMS messages sent from G1 devices to see the wrong number on messages they receive.

There is currently no estimate of how much longer it will take for a fix to be applied. Now that the problem has been identified, we hope it won't be too much longer.

Thanks to everybody who provided information here, and to those who took the time to call in and have trouble tickets created to provide info for our engineers. Our engineers now have all the examples they require. There is no need to call in about this anymore. We will post another update once we have more information.
On another note, there is a separate issue in which text messages (sms) sent from the G1 are being misdirected, or G1 owners are receiving calls or texts from strangers asking why the G1 owner texted the stranger, when the G1 owner did not text the stranger. This issue, although similar, is believed to be separate from the MMS issue above. Our engineers are still looking for examples of the SMS issue. If you are experiencing this problem with text messages, please contact us, and ask to speak with PDA support. Pda support will do some troubleshooting and possibly send an update to your phone. If the update and troubleshooting does not fix the issue, then a trouble ticket may be required to get info about your problem over to our engineers.


Message Edited by Dominic on 01-09-2009 04:13 PM

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[birdman81484]

......On another note, there is a separate issue in which text messages (sms) sent from the G1 are being misdirected, or G1 owners are receiving calls or texts from strangers asking why the G1 owner texted the stranger, when the G1 owner did not text the stranger. This issue, although similar, is believed to be separate from the MMS issue above. Our engineers are still looking for examples of the SMS issue. If you are experiencing this problem with text messages, please contact us, and ask to speak with PDA support. Pda support will do some troubleshooting and possibly send an update to your phone. If the update and troubleshooting does not fix the issue, then a trouble ticket may be required to get info about your problem over to our engineers......

Hahaha so my theory still hasn't been disproved. T-Mo doesn't know why it's happening! I once again submit that people with this problem had their own phone numbers and possibly the numbers in their contacts stolen.(certain apps in the market have access to your phone number and contacts) Even if you did not download the app that has access to your phone number. If you were in the contact list of a user that downloaded and used a program that had access to their contact list then your number could be used by "spoofing" software which could route picture messages that appeared to come from numbers (like yours) that they did not come from. This would/could explain what is going on in the above excerpt of scrannel's post.

My really insano theory is that this was a test of a new kind of spamming software.

I further submit, (haha I have almost no evidence, except something I am working on which is not ready...) that the "MeetMe" app is responsible. I say this because my picture messaging problems and the problems of a few others arose at the time I/we installed the "MeetMe" app.(this could be a coincidence)

I have e-mailed the company twice with these claims that they released a malicious app. I also asked that they delete my personal information from their servers that remained after I uninstalled the app. I have recieved no reply from the company.

MeetMe was released by Stylem Media. www.stylem.com (notice that "MeetMe" is not listed on this site....)

Stylem is owned by this sketchball company http://x92.net




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