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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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6 answers

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    TankilyoraDbug Posted messages 1039 Status Member 219
     
    Probably your phone couldn't decrypt the message. It may have contained Arabic, Japanese, Chinese characters, etc.
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  2. 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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  3. TankilyoraDbug Posted messages 1039 Status Member 219
     
    Does it do that with every received SMS?
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  4. dany311 Posted messages 13341 Registration date   Status Contributor 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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    1. 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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    2. dany311 Posted messages 13341 Registration date   Status Contributor 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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  6. Tigzy Posted messages 7983 Status Security Contributor 582
     
    Hello,

    Maybe the sender didn't understand either
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  7. 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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