Why did my new phone txt a random set of numbers and letters to a random five digit mobile number non existent on my device??
Bring the new phone back to the store and get another? It sounds fishy. Let them give you the reason or give you a new phone.
Because you didn’t turn it off before you put it in your pocket?
When did it do this, and how do you know it did this? Was the phone itself under your control at the time? Have you ever let a friend borrow your phone? What kind of phone is it?
The NSA
My grandson used to get his mom’s phone and do that very thing. It was most likely accidental. If it keeps doing it and you cannot explain it by other reasons, may be it does have a glitch on board. Return it.
Brand new phone. Phone just sitting on top of table. No one has access to phone. Girlfriends phone done same thing last year , three months later it packed in!!!
There’s no such agency …
What makes you believe that either the contents of the message or the recipient’s number are random? Do you still have them? Care to share?
The Verizon NFL mobile app sends a verification text to a four- or five-digit number (used to be 2635, may be something else now) that looks like a random string of characters.
Are you sure your phone sent it to another phone, and not the other way around? My guess would be, as Really Not… said, lots of online systems use verification codes to do things like reset passwords. Probably someone typed in the wrong phone number, so their code got sent to you by accident.
To clarify, the NFL app sends an *outgoing *verification text.
Some mobile providers preload software that “phones home” without your knowledge or consent (though doubtless you were “informed” somewhere in the reams of fine print you signed). For example, my Vodafone-branded phone would occasionally send text messages with random-looking strings of characters to the number 88850800003436. Googling for this number brings up no shortage of queries from confused Vodafone customers. Vodafone vaguely claims that the messages are being automatically sent from its “free self-help service” called My191. Removing that application supposedly stops the texts.
Check with your mobile provider to see if they’ve preinstalled similar software and if so, ask them how to remove it.