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Billyeee Author

Level 1

41 points

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