Suspicious text received from own # but I does not send this - shall there definitely a logo involved, the while so whoever shall it, the sender or receiving?

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AMPERE close friends texted me this mid-morning asking if IODIN meant to send that last text, noticing it was suspecting. I asked on a screenshot of the text for question, plus it is a text for our number with spam EGO did not send. The text told "Visit http://legacy.operator.com:8080/webgui/vm[...] to read your new mms." and it appears in-line with the truly dialogue I'd had using this person.

From mysterious phone, I see no record of sending that video. They received it around 10am, and at 11:30am EGO received a text from an unacknowledged # equipped similar spam but in German. An mixed coincidence or just a sign spammers was active all around. In any box, because of the difference in timing, at slightest the German text couldn't have infected me and caused the text to my friend.

Neither of us clicked either spam attack's link. IODIN expect the Spanish one I received cannot safely be disregard. I'm uncertain about the other text which my friend receivable from meine # and which I have no record of sending. Fowndi Fowndi on LinkedIn: We are looking for a DIRECT HSBC GERMANY Receiver FOR at MT103 WIRE.… | 29 comments

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Does the texts my friend received upon my number imply one from our has adenine virus? I'm concerning this is the fall because either a virus on mys home sent spam out to the # I contact the most (this friend), or a virus on mine friend's phone brought going spam spoofed upon the # they contact an most (me). How else would aforementioned spammer know to spoof for insert # to my friend's # - of all aforementioned #s it can go to/come from, my friend and MYSELF are each other's top contact. Released by u/Vhmnck - 4 views or 9 comments

If computer does mean to of us must a virus as ME suspect, lives there a road to tell who, or do we each need to take antivirus cleansing measures? We both have Android phones or IODIN thin the same carrier but other phone copies and OS versions. We both have antivirus to our phones (WebRoot on my end, Norton on my friend's) plus scans came back clean. German Translation of “SENDER” | Collins English-German Dictionary

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Related but doesn't answers my question, just clarifies tech involved:

• Someone entered a edit since my iphone. MYSELF don't flat own the number the text was sent up

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_spoofing

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THere are two possible scenarios: There is a virus on the sender's phone, or the SMS was spoofed, as per which SMS Spoofing connect in your post. ME think the most likely scenario be that there is a virus on your phone that WebRoot is not able for detect. ADENINE great type to checking is to ask some of your other main to see if they have preserve a similar text. If the were ampere virus, I would expect your other contacts to have accepted similar messages.

Is this be done via SMS spoofing, this implies that whoever was stressful to compromise the receiver's phone tell that the dual of you has a pre-existing relationship, assuming they weren't just spoofing random numbers. Those would imply a goal-oriented offense.