Random text messages sent overnight 11072019

[jdaniele]

So I was hearing a few people had a bunch of random texts from people they have in their contacts randomly texting them overnight. I received one too from a buddy (aka Anthony lol). When I sent him a screen shot, he said it wasn't him. Anyone hear anything out there? It was all SMS texts and between 2:30a-4a EST.

This is all over the news now... something fishy was definitely going on.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953422/text-messages-delayed-received-overnight-valentines-day-delay
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/valentines-day-texts-old-messages-random-phone-messaging-issue-explained-2019-11-1028670746
https://www.cnet.com/news/delayed-valentines-day-messages-were-sent-on-every-network-overnight/
https://qz.com/1744280/people-are-just-now-receiving-delayed-texts-from-february/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a29726341/texts-delayed-random/
https://www.androidauthority.com/strange-texts-november-2019-1051808/
https://www.abc15.com/national/weird-text-messages-overnight-sprint-says-update-caused-message-confusion
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-ton-of-people-received-text-messages-overnight-that-were-originally-sent-on-valentines-day/ar-BBWqhYn
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/07/old-text-message-glitch/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/11/08/thousands-people-just-got-text-messages-sent-valentines-day/2527660001/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/07/forgot-you-not-valentines-day-ghost-texts-arrive-months-late/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cell-phones-mysterious-text-messages_n_5dc4424fe4b0d8eb3c917dcf
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wave-of-text-messages-delivered-months-late-leads-to-lots-of-confusion-and-quickly-changing-emotions/
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/months-later-thousands-of-people-reportedly-received-undelivered-text-messages-sent-around-valentines-day
https://nj1015.com/got-a-weird-text-message-overnight-heres-why/
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/tech/text-messages-delayed-valentines-day/index.html
https://fox43.com/2019/11/07/people-received-text-messages-overnight-originally-sent-on-valentines-day/

[jdaniele]

Just a thought but I wonder if this has anything to do with the new RCS Messaging that I've been hearing about.