Text messages delivered to wrong person

Can anyone help with a contact email for reporting a problem which I beleive to be a serious security issue ?

I have a Samsung Galaxy, a friend has an iPhone 4 - he replied to a text from me and it went to a complete stranger's iMessage account. This happened a number of times until the stranger contacted my friend and expained he wasn't me and could my friend stop texting him.

I tested by getting another friend with an iPhone 4 to text me and it also went to the stranger's account.

I tested using an iPhone 3 and a Blackberry adn those text came through to my phone correctly.

I contacted my provider - Vodaphone - who believe that the stranger had mistakenly entered my mobile number into his mynumber setting on his iPhone 4 and had iMessaging enabled. He was also contacting Vodafone -his provider and I can oly assume they gave him the same information as it has now been corrected and I am receiving my messages once again.

I think this is a huge security breach where any private messages can go to a stranger because they mistype their mynumber and you may never know.

I tried to report this to Apple via the Apple contact phone number and because I don't own an Apple device they could not log it as they only log against device identified numbers!

My questions:

1. Does the above scenarios and suggested reason make sense?

2. Does anyone have an email address I can notifiy this issue to ?

Thanks

iPhone 4

Posted on Dec 21, 2011 8:14 AM

19 replies

aquatox

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Oct 10, 2012 5:18 PM in response to Angemanning

I have texts going to friends and then friends of friends, people getting the same text from me multiple times etc. I've shut of imessage and everything else I can think of. I've had the same service provider for years but only got an Iphone this year. Time to pitch it!

Feb 16, 2013 8:26 AM in response to RB1608

The same thing happened to me recently. iPhone 4 too. iMessages issue. No operator had any clue what´s happening: every message I sent to my friend went to some stranger. Every. Message. To some weirdo. So I did the only thing I could - I disabled the iMessages FOREVER and went on with my life.

josh_dog

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Mar 8, 2013 5:15 PM in response to RB1608

I had this exact issue. Contacted my carrier (Bell) and he instructed me to reset my network settings in (general then reset) after turning imessage off in the message settings. Not sure if he did something additional from his end but it seems to have fixed the issue.

jand3js

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Mar 10, 2013 4:37 PM in response to RB1608

I just got my first iphone. It was all good until i started having weird thing happening with the messages. Send a message to my brother somebody else got it. Call att they said they fix it. Try to test message again, my brother and somebody else got my message. I been fighting this issue for 4 days. Call att again they said it was something with my iphone.😕😕

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Text messages delivered to wrong person