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Why am I receiving unwanted short codes from foreign countries?
I have been a T-Mobile Magenta Max 55+ customer for over one and half years with no issues until recently. About three weeks ago, I began receiving short codes with no message from foreign countries. This occurs several time per day. I called T-Mobile technical support and was told that they were issuing a trouble ticket. That was over a week ago and no response. Any one else have this problem? Is there a way to block these unwanted short codes?
There is no Wells Fargo in Afghanistan and Russia does not have Social Security. As mentioned, they are spoofed scams.
Thank you for posting. I made the same observation and trying to understand why this happening. I did go backtrack the short code number and I do have posts from this same short code from prior months, but recently they are showing very strange routing. For instance, one of the short codes is from my bank a very large bank and the routing of the text is coming from the Congo. Makes no sense to me.
You're getting a spoofed short-code notification, the header-metadata for the message has more info than is visible in the basic message. Short-codes get spoofed the same way, even 911 can be spoofed in this way, with a motivated bad actor.
I’d try blocking that thread, and then testing your banks’ shortcode by requesting a 2FA login, to make sure you still receive them, with the block (on the spoof) in place.
Yes, all my short codes are coming from foreign countries. Example Wells Fargo Afghanistan, Mediacom Russia, Social Security Russia, this is more than alarming and the people at T Mobile can't explain what is happening!
