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When sharing my location via the Messages app, other people see a thumbnail with Chinese text for my location

This is such a bizarre issue I hardly no where to start. When I share my location with people via the messages app, a thumbnail always shows up for me with a string of chinese text. I'm not located next to any Chinese businesses and it does this regardless of where in the world I am. The text apparently translates to something like "Hong Kong Massage" or something like that. I also noticed when my friend shared his location to me from a completely different location it showed HIS location as the same Chinese spa text.


Does anybody know what might be going on here?


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iPhone X, iOS 11.4

Posted on Jun 6, 2018 3:21 PM

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Posted on Jun 10, 2018 1:00 PM

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The same thing happened to me as well today; I received this location share, and it's also for the "Hong Kong Tuen Mun Beauty Foot Beauty & Massage Centre" according to Google Translate. The individual that shared this with me and I are located in Canada. I'd love to find out what's going on!

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