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Q: 6s - receiving weird text messages in Chinese.

These messages are coming twice every minute and I don't know how to stop them from appearing.  What's really strange is that they don't appear as a message alert.  I only see them if I open up to text.

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3.2

Posted on Jul 15, 2016 11:36 AM

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  • by aicragleon,

    aicragleon aicragleon Sep 12, 2016 4:46 PM in response to bkleinkort
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    Sep 12, 2016 4:46 PM in response to bkleinkort

    Did it ever stop?  Let me know what you did or if anyone else had this happen.

  • by Kilian Mac,

    Kilian Mac Kilian Mac Sep 16, 2016 10:29 PM in response to bkleinkort
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    Sep 16, 2016 10:29 PM in response to bkleinkort

    The same thing has just happened to me, no alert either, its scary. Also just saw an article on reddit of it happening to some one else. They received the same message as I did before it all happened.. this is it ...that my Apple id had been " used to sign in to iMessage on an iPod named 'iPod touch.'" I do not own an iPod touch.

    I changed my password and want to do the 2 step security changes but have to wait 2 days

    Anybody now if this is malicious or just annoying ? thanks K

  • by JF1987_UK,

    JF1987_UK JF1987_UK Sep 22, 2016 4:29 AM in response to Kilian Mac
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    Sep 22, 2016 4:29 AM in response to Kilian Mac

    Hi, the same thing has happened to me in the last few days. On Tuesday 20th September, I had an alert pop up on my phone (iphone SE) saying "your apple id and phone number are now being used for iMessage on a new Mac". I quickly changed my apple iD password and erased all authorised devices for my apple id but today (Thursday 22nd September) i've found 26 messages sent on Tuesday, 25 of them to +86 numbers and one mysterious one to a +63 number.

     

    Can anyone help with this??

  • by margabarbour,

    margabarbour margabarbour Sep 22, 2016 6:59 AM in response to JF1987_UK
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    Sep 22, 2016 6:59 AM in response to JF1987_UK

    same thing is happening to me, it just started 20 minutes ago.

  • by easliman,

    easliman easliman Sep 22, 2016 10:45 AM in response to margabarbour
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    Sep 22, 2016 10:45 AM in response to margabarbour

    Same thing happened to me yesterday. I changed the password and security questions. I also found some reoccurring events on my icloud calendar. Apple did not explain what is happening, how, or why.