On Jul 29, 10:11 am, "DubDriver" <dubsdri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Hooch" <Hooc...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> > On Jul 28, 11:10 pm, "DubDriver" <dubsdri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "Hooch" <Hooc...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> >> > All of a sudden today I had several text messages from someone in
> >> > Sweden come through on my landline (from 07953 966066). Is this
> >> > 18185's system (who I've recently started sending texts through)?
> >> > Because the texts weren't in English and were being read as if they
> >> > were, none of them was decipherable! To add to the confusion, several
> >> > other texts from the same person came through normally to my mobile.
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> >> So the messages are from something/someone who knows both your mobile and
> >> landline number.
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> > Yes, indeed. Actually the landline is in the name of the person
> > who's in Sweden at the moment.
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> >> 18185 will not know your mobile number unless you have
> >> added it as a number you wish to make calls from. Have you done that?
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> > Not that I recall. Most probably not.
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> >> If not
> >> I don't see any reason it's directly to do with 18185.
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> > Ah. The puzzling thing is why (some of) these texts should suddenly
> > start coming through on the land line out of the blue.
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> I think I know what is happening, when you send a text message from 18185
> the caller ID is that of your landline. So, although you may of only
> previously told the person in Sweden your mobile number he/she will see your
> landline number in the text message and using mobile's reply button it will
> go to your landline

Yes, indeed.