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Significance of SMS "? ? ? ? ?"

quwill-fb -  
 Anonymous user -
Hello,

Please tell me what does ? ? ? ? mean in a text message composed solely of these symbols

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TankilyoraDbug Posted messages 1039 Status Membre 219
 
Probably your phone couldn't decrypt the message. It may have contained Arabic, Japanese, Chinese characters, etc.
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quwill-fb
 
Thank you for your response. But the correspondent does use our alphabet, unless he has encoded his SMS and I don't have the "decoder."
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TankilyoraDbug Posted messages 1039 Status Membre 219
 
Does it do that with every received SMS?
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dany311 Posted messages 13262 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   2 131
 
Hello quwill
it's very simple
it's a scammer who randomly sends a text message and waits for a response to trick an unsuspecting person
so scam at play
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quwill-fb
 
Thank you Dany311

In fact, I took my daughter's number and her mobile, and the SMS sender is known.
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dany311 Posted messages 13262 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   2 131
 
Okay, I see, a friend of your daughter who is having fun
or a reply to a text message from your daughter.
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Tigzy Posted messages 7983 Status Contributeur sécurité 582
 
Hello,

Maybe the sender didn't understand either
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Réponse 6 / 6
Anonymous user
 
that's what I was going to say too, tigzy

when we don't understand or have a question, we put a ?
normal

when I really don't understand anything, I put ?????????
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