Mobile phone text puzzle

What do you make of this?

This morning I received a text from a friend which I found puzzling.
I suspected she'd sent it to me by mistake.
I replied with a few ???s...

She has no knowledge of the text I received and its not showing in her phone.

How can this be?

Re: Mobile phone text puzzle

It could be an old text. Sometimes I get a text from someone that was received a year or so ago. It might say something like 'Hope you are feeling better now' And I think, but I'm not ill. I don't know who you are with but it has happened quite a few times with Orange/EE.

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Thanks for that Longdogs, really helpful.
I'll ask my friend if she's with Orange or EE

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Ruthio, 3 times now I have received emails under the guise of friend's names, but they know nothing about it and have never sent them.

I believe their 'Contacts' lists had been hacked.

According to this, it appears the same can happen with our mobiles.


https://www.wikihow.com/Prevent-Your...Your_Phone_sub

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Some will say, it’s just a glitch!

Last year, the day after my birthday, I sent a text to my sister in Spain, saying, l was out with my other sister and her husband having a meal for my birthday.

She still keeps receiving this text regularly, almost ten months after my birthday! Sometimes, she would receive the same text several times a day.

I have informed Tesco (O2) my provider and her provider, Vodaphone. They both blame the other network!

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I've had this happen to me, too. It's just a glitch that will go away.

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Sometimes I don't get receive texts for three or four days, then they all arrive together at once. Odd really seeing as EE constantly bang on about being the fastest network.

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I'm sick of seeing all those EE adverts with Kevin Bacon. EE may be good but aren't much better than 3 whom I've used for years.