I'm in Montreal, I have a Samsung cell with Virgin, incoming texts are free, and I just got two of those garbled messages. The fake 555 number looked suspicious. I've had my cell for over 5 years this is the first time it happened. Weird. If this is because someone is trying to send a picture why does this 'glitch' give that fake number?

Information:

I got 4 of the same encrypted messages.  When I tryed texting the number i recieved this message: "Your message will be sent to landline phone number (416) 555-2121.  Pour envoyer message en francais au (416) 555-2121, repondez f a ce message."  So this is from a home phone, so this is really confusing..  It sounds like so far its a home line phone that attempts to send pictures through your carrier and onto your phone, but for some reason during this proccess the picture gets encryted.  Purhaps a computer program designed to piss people off?  Im not sure, but im not liking this.  If anyone has any anwsers please email me at bretster_15 @ hotmail.com.  I gotta get rid of this.  Oh and i am on virgin, on samsung link .  thanks :)

and virgin mobile is based off of bell mobility.  coincidence that bell and virgin users are being texted.  I activated my phone online by myself.  I don't receive any of these bu***hit calls.  when you activate your phone at the kiosk(s) They send your number off to the marketers.

Well it is ovbious that this is only effecting mainly virgin mobile and some bell users(since virgin uses bells network, it makes sense). And it is obvious that this is only happening when someone tries to send a photo. I had my friend send one to me and that same message would show in two parts. It also seems that this is only happening to certain phones, samsung, blackberries, LG, and sanyo. So I think everyone should call virgin mobile or bell, if u haven't already, and explain that this is happening. Also everyone should get a friend to send them a photo and see if you get that two part nonsense message. Why it comes from the same number for all of us, (416) 555-2121(except the one person from montreal who had area code 512 I think but the rest of the number was the same), I'm still not sure of. I wonder if everyone is from ontario that this is happening to, since its a 416 number (toronto). Well that's all I could figure out for now, still not sure why its happening. If I figure it out I'll be sure to post it. Hope this helped.

We just received the same garble text messages. His/her phone company should take the number away!! Obviously this individual should not be in possession of a phone. This is obviously not criminal but it is a good class action law suit and the phone provider can be pulled down with the infamous (416) 555-2121

I've just started getting the same thing.  I'm on a Virgin phone, which uses Bell's network.I Googled the number and found an obviously fake car listing (check the seller's address):http://www.autodeal.ca/category/1041/DENALI/l ... li-SUV-AWD.html