In the past couple months I’ve gotten between a half dozen to a dozen texts from an unfamiliar number that consist of just a nonsense string of symbol characters, always palindrome-style, with a link in the middle. Something like this:
(###--@&--#!-- [link] --!#--&@--###)
The symbol character part usually goes on even longer. Of course I don’t click on the link in the middle, and I delete the message immediately, but I just wonder, who would be dumb enough to click on such a weird-looking link? Do people click on it just out of curiosity, maybe?
Anybody else get texts like that, or got any idea what the deal is?
I think it’s just to pique your curiosity. I received one that knew/used my first name and claimed I had a UPS package that was being held for me. The link was surrounded by characters. I didn’t click the link.
I think some of the special characters, (“Great new DEALS on CBD_Oils##”) are to get past some spam filters. I assume the filters are looking for the enclosed word, and the random characters surrounding it cause the filter to skip over it.