Last night during Christmas dinner my mom was recieved a text message and she thought it was another text message from a friend wishing her a Merry Christmas.

But it wasn't.

She recieved a text written only in symbols, like computer symbols but it was dated 24/12/2093 . I thought it was an error so I checked the date on her cellphone and figured it was 2093 but it wasn't and even more weird was that instead of having the senders phone written it had " aR". When you get a text from someone who isnt on your cellphone list it shows their number saying who its from instead of their name but it didnt show any number, only the name as if she had that name saved. So I look in her contact list and she didnt have any "aR" .

Weird?


I tried writting something and replying but when I tried to reply the contact didnt exist, I couldnt write back to this "aR".

she got another text last on with some more weird symbols, also dated 2093 but a longer text.


Just some weird computer error? Or am I going crazy??

[edit on 25-12-2009 by msmiaaaaa]

One of the texts

"yo[ 2Ça9 åò0ù ¿å y M ~ >@D< ¿U"

Thats from the first text and theres one symbol missing that I cant make

[edit on 25-12-2009 by msmiaaaaa]

It's a trick because the second time you said aR instead of rA, so she did have a rA in her contacts!

I mash riddles lol

Your not crazy, that's weird.

aR

sorry about that im new to this ; )

she didnt cause i looked in her contacts and she didnt have anything
then i tried to reply back to that person and didnt let me, like the person didnt exist at all

A friend of mine experienced many text messages like this, the strangest was from his girlfriend, strange because she was sitting next to him with her phone switched off when he received it.

After a lot of digging it turned out his ex-wife had subscribed to some revenge website where you could redirect numbers and send text messages to someone "from" the numbers of friends that exist in that persons phone. If that is possible then maybe date twisting is possible too? Hope you get to the bottom of it and I wouldnt worry so much about it in the mean time

so other then the strange date what was on
the two text you recived

Great, sounds interesting.

Take a photo of the text message and upload it so we can see.

I wish I could take a picture of the text at the moment but i dont have a camera cord so ill have to upload it later from a friends but I did write down what the first text said.

Its very weird because if it was from an unknown number then the number would show up on the text but it showed up as "aR"

just very weird to me

Heres what the 2nd text said

o[ Ue/NAä2 Ü ÑEuPu= F Ao < Âi< As IEÇzUM7I] hX ßnzU] EEsP $/ Ui}X ¿Uuwz ¿EsDY ! 0o

Except for the fact the sending number shows up weird, there is the possibility that someone sent a message to the wrong number..and the message was from someone who was sending in another language like maybe Russian which uses the Cyrillic character set..

the text string you got is very similar to what I see occasionally when I receive Russian language messages and my browser is not set to recognize Cyrillic... but you would get the same effect with any non latin character set if your device is not capable of receiving them.

i really hope youre not implying that i am making this up.
i visit this website almost everyday and just because of that text message i signed up to try to get some answers. you really think i would be wasting my time?

as soon as i can upload the text picture i will

Im really going to try to get a picture as soon as I can, yes I also found it very weird..expecially the date and how I cant send it back

Might be some cellphone error but theres still something "fishy" about it to me


and yes i used to lurk here all the time, its a very interesting website