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A spam text message appeared from myself

In the text thread for my own contact profile—the thread where messages show up if I send a text message to my phone number—a message showed with a phishing link, that I didn’t send.

It says below it “Not shown in Shared with You”.

All of the other texts I’ve sent to myself in the past are above it. This is in the actual thread for my own contact profile.

It only shows up once, on the left side in grey, as if I received it. Every other text in this thread (that I did actually send to myself) shows up twice—once on the right in blue when I sent it, and a second time on the left in grey when I received it. This one only shows up on the left in grey.

How is this possible?

I have two factor authentication enabled, so I know that nobody has signed in to my Apple ID externally.

I also know with certainty that nobody has physically gained unauthorized accessed to any of my devices.

Posted on Mar 27, 2022 1:47 PM

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Drosenth

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Posted on Mar 28, 2022 6:19 AM

Greetings Billyeee,

I JUST had this happen as well - 3/28/2022. I am blown away at this, as I don't understand how this is possible either. It says it came in as a "text message", and it is SPAM. I typically text myself things to remember, so I already have a text chain with items on the right side (that I send to myself) and then the same item on the left (which is the message I received). For this, it is only on the left - which is strange AND more importantly concerning!

I want to figure this out quickly as it seems like it is FROM MY CELL number (since it is labeled as "text message" - and is not an imessage).

The timing is VERY ironic, that you just posted this as well. Looks like some cell phone spoofing is underway.

Any help would be appreciated - thanks,

DaveR

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