My phone sent an SMS that I did not send

GreenMunky

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So this morning I open Hangouts and see that in the middle of the night my phone sent a text message to 2635. The text message body was:

/T:20fa2a57-f8b2-41c8-93d7-15c2b1fa2327/ /R:5294462c0cf29206e34cd1ac/

Can anybody tell me what this is, why it sent, etc? Has anyone else had this or something similar happen?

Sent from my Moto X
 

charlie-n

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So this morning I open Hangouts and see that in the middle of the night my phone sent a text message to 2635. The text message body was:

/T:20fa2a57-f8b2-41c8-93d7-15c2b1fa2327/ /R:5294462c0cf29206e34cd1ac/

Can anybody tell me what this is, why it sent, etc? Has anyone else had this or something similar happen?

Sent from my Moto X

what service do you have? and are you using hangouts?
 

GreenMunky

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My phone did the same thing. I'm pretty sure its for the NFL mobile app. I'm also on Verizon. Its done that in the past to verify your service

Sent from my XT1060 using xda app-developers app
That makes a lot of sense. I opened the NFL Mobile app last night for the first time, then it tried to verify something that I didn't want to wait for so I closed the app and then disabled it. Thank you very much, I was kinda freaked out that my phone had some kind of malware that was sending encrypted info without my knowledge. I guess it was just crappy bloat-ware instead.
 

charlie-n

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My phone did the same thing. I'm pretty sure its for the NFL mobile app. I'm also on Verizon. Its done that in the past to verify your service

Sent from my XT1060 using xda app-developers app
Hangouts shows sms messages that are supposed to be hidden, it intercepts them as they go out, you are not charged extra for them, it goes as far as intercepting voicemail commands on my sprint version so I had to switch back to stock sms app until they fix it.
 
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Verizon / NFL Mobile

Yes, it is from Verizon verifying that you are eligible to watch free, live, NFL games that are broadcast in your region and all national prime time games using the NFL Mobile app. Today CBS changed our game from Houston @ Minnesota to Pittsburgh @ Miami so I tried to watch Houston @ Minnesota on my phone and it worked fine.
 
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Nownd

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That freaked me out thanks for putting my mind at ease guys. That's certainly what did it. Super Bowl while in line for dinner. Any good suggestions for identifying applications or possibly root kits etc. And the connections these types of apps tend to use, I intend of contributing to the boards more again. I used to everyday for mobile hardware and Web app development generals. But Im curious if there are apps by which they execute tasks like in this manner which I know this particular one isn't but I don't know the best path for figuring that kind of detection and more advanced feedback results and whos signature database wont be easily corruptible, maybe something more productive and professional but real scan and firewall features would be nice however I think thats why some socks and vpns services exist. I use a couple things. I can't help thinking I'm an idiot for wanting to know what and who want what from my android Mac or Windows device. Instead I could be allowing perms access to apps advertising to stop it but make you vulnerable to the point of someone walking on in and helping themself. I want control over my life my tools and devices, but would settle for doing my best to avoid it from someone else. This is one of a couple weird events. Subtle (what I think are attempts to install $.... yet stood out tremendously at the time. Sorry for etiquette I'm conjuction with topic question a small add on to it and thoughts of others encountering nfl live, any info or comments welcome don't beat me too hard, it's been a working progressive thing for the last year I noticed all these horrible warning signs of the end of true privacy as we know it, since it resonated my interest has grown but maybe my interest has drawn attention like vpns and etc. Idk what to do at this point. Take me back to 1996 and a Circle K with a few dimes and a pay phone if I need you on the phone right now, bad wish for a developer. :]
 

Samiam.~

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wht if u never use (hangouts.) & in fact have it disabled on ur phn. do not have a (NFL APP) on ur phn, have never opened one or installed one on ur phn. do not watch t.v. or movies. or sports of any kind on ur phn. have no idea how to cast to anything, nor
do i have any kind of casting/movie/ t.v. watching or playing player or app on my phn. & Have disabled the (google play) (movie/t.v./app) as well on my phn. /& u do not use (verizon wireless) phn service. ???? Or do
not have or use the (google voice messaging/calling service) yet i still got the same text message on my phn as well. ? ANYONE have any other ideas? of to why this happened? or wht it cld be from? thanks, {samiam.~}
 
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