Mobile Phone DOS Attack?

[akicif]

Well, that's odd. I've just started getting some rather odd texts - about 2-3 a minute - from a number of the form '1910338xxxx' [last four digits, slowly increasing].

Each text consists of 2-3 parts (but they don't all arrive completely) and consist of exactly the sort of email you get when your address has been used as a from address in a spam. And each one of them wants me to autoreply.

Anyone got any ideas what may be going on?

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The reply number is some sort of premium rate service?

[akicif.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought - and exactly why I'm not going to try and phone the number ;-)

I have now "collected" 19103380646 to 19103389752 ...

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Have you tried googling for other incidences of such phenomena?

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the google-fu is weak within me at the moment, so I got nowhere.

Phoned my phone provider, and they were distinctly at a loss - the fact it's coming from a range of numbers seems to prevent blocking it - unless I'm prepared to lose all text reception.

[fizzyboot.livejournal.com]

It's probably a coincidence but I got a spam text message today (they wanted me to go to some shitty web site).

[akicif.livejournal.com]

This wasn't even 'proper' spam - just the hailstorm of bounce emails you get when your email address has been used as a fake 'from:' address in a spam attack - only to my phone.

I suppose someone could have set up a mail to text gateway and got the number wrong, but I doubt it. Or rather, I doubt the innocence of the intent....