I’m not sure where else to post this, but my mom received a strange text message from “herself” on her prepaid phone. Normally, she gets reminders to top up her account, but today’s message appears to be in Chinese. We tried translating it with Google, but only got a few words that didn’t make sense. Here’s the message: 奰甧癥敡捨敤⁹潵爠卡獫呥氠睩牥汥獳灥湤楮朠汩浩琠潲潮❴慶攠敮潵杨⁐牥灡楤畮摳⁴漠獥湤⁴數琯灩挠浳朮⁔漠瑵牮⁴桥敡瑵牥慣欠潮. Does anyone have any ideas about what this could mean?
That’s really odd! It could be a glitch or a spam message. Sometimes these prepaid services send out random messages.
Have you checked to see if the number is legitimate? It might be worth contacting the service provider to see if they recognize it.
It could also be a sign of a potential phishing attempt. Be cautious and don’t click on any links if there are any.
The text could be a garbled automated message from the provider. If it’s not urgent, I’d recommend ignoring it.
You might want to run the text through multiple translation apps or services. Sometimes they can pick up on different things.