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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?
- syaoranTransmission Titan
There is no Wells Fargo in Afghanistan and Russia does not have Social Security. As mentioned, they are spoofed scams.
- NMLP_userNetwork Novice
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.
- pgreyTransmission Trainee
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.
- Justme1980Network Novice
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!
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