Can viewing a pdf document via text message from an unknown phone number contain a virus? Simply clicked on a pdf attachment from a random phone number on accident. Immediately noticed upon opening that it looked like a scam asking me to make a toll payment.
Unsettling Messages from Random Numbers on iPhone Starting about a week or two ago, I've been getting very weird and unsettling messages from numbers in Idaho, Michigan, and Colorado. It started with them just saying "Hello" "Hey" or "Hi" but recently it's gotten worse and they've been saying peculiar things to me.
My Apple ID 2 factor authentication has a random phone number I was doing a two factor authentication and a number that only showed the last two digits and I knew that wasn’t mine and I checked everyone in my contacts and it wasn’t anyone.
The random sequence of letters and numbers preceded by a ~ that you are receiving from your friend who uses an Android phone is most likely caused by a compatibility issue between the two messaging platforms.
When I text him, my phone doesn’t show the random number. When my son receives the message it is now a group message with number from Textnow (660)628-8779. When he replies I receive as a group message. We tried deleting thread on both I-phones and even updated ISO to latest. When he starts a tread it adds the textnow number.
Random numbers appears in call log after each call Just switched to an iphone14pro from an older iphone yesterday and started seeing random numbers in my call log today in addition to the actual incoming or outgoing numbers. Each incoming or outgoing call will have one other number added to it, some are random, others are pulled my my own contacts.