Possible Spam Text Message with Aliens

How do you know it came from you?

Your father getting confused — particularly given you don’t have a copy of the message — is a simpler explanation than the options you considering.

More likely than an alien intervention in a Messages conversation, too.

Possibly in his input, caused by accidentally activating voice recognition support, with background audio live-streamed from Grover’s Mill. Or from any video streaming platform. Or from some other audio source.

From some experience in IT, certainly trust what is being reported, but also verify what you are being told. Here, maybe use FaceTime to connect into the device, and check the conversations.

Nothing there indicates you sent that message. The one your Dad sent to you could of come from your Dad accidentally tapping the dictation button and Siri was listening to something on the TV in the background and due to the poor grammar, it had difficulty understanding each word.

The video/audio of people recording the drones over New Jersey have been a constant news story lately.

Yeah, and I had three different people swear to me that the failed computer was plugged in, drove three hours to the site, and, well, plugged the computer into power.

Turned out three people had only looked at one end of the power cord. Not at both ends.

Who knows which of the gremlins pulled out that cord.

FaceTime into the device, and verify what you are being told.

Again, accidentally hitting the voice transcription button can cause something that can be confused for this. Though it’ll be in the local thread, not in what you sent. Or maybe it’s in some other conversation. Or maybe you’re getting gaslit locally. Or other options. You’re much closer to this configuration than anybody else here.

creativepixel wrote:

3 hours to plug in a computer…!?! 🤣🤣😳 I believe it.

Three hour drive, yes. Walk in, look at the power cord, see the problem, plug it in, boot, verify, leave.

What do you mean by local thread?

Blue bubbles stuff, grey bubbles stuff, as each participant in the conversation views those colors. Remote into the device with FaceTime, and see where that message was placed in whichever conversations were happening, and whether the remote end you’re remote’d into indicates your end (or some other conversation) sent it.

Or gaslit?

I’ve worked various cases when I was lied to, or trolled, or otherwise encountered unreliable reportage, by one of the participants. Some were malicious, some were confusion. For whatever reason. These cases can progress into full-on gaslighting, too. Which gets back to that “trust, but verify” approach.

creativepixel wrote:

Can spam interact between when iPhone texts are being sent/received?

No.