Text message at 1.15 am saying ‘Hello’

@Donttalksboutpumpkinspiceyet OP, kindly, you seem overly anxious. Perhaps that’s something to think about?

scam - I get sooo many like that from very pretty women on all my sm channels.

block, delete and don't think any further about it.

I got this text message today, they weren't on WhatsApp either. I blocked and deleted, think it is some sort of scam after doing a google

Probably a wrong number, but surely you just delete and forget? Maybe also block, in case it's a scam. Not worth more than 30 seconds of anyone's time.

I could dial a random number and send a message to anyone. No need to be nervous is there.

Have you never heard of a wrong number?

You can also do it manually by pressing the “moon” icon on this screen. (If the moon is not there automatically, you can add it in the settings

🤣

In the settings, I set mine to be do not disturb from 10pm til 7am.

I put mum & husband on Emergency Bypass, so calls from them will ring through regardless.

Set it to do not disturb between certain hours. You can still allow calls from certain important numbers should you be needed.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204321

I get random diallers on my landline. Sometimes a recorded message just says "Goodbye" and hangs up. I block them.

Because now you've replied, they know your number is an active number and not a randomly dialled number.

I had this - a scam. Block.

I got a hello yesterday. Closely followed by are you at work?. Are you busy?
Not a number I recognised and seemed to have a Pakistan international code so I blocked it.

🤣🤣 so true, I’d forgotten my parents used to do this!

At that time on a weekend I'd just assume it's a bloke who was given a wrong number by a girl who wanted him gone or a genuine mistake from somebody pissed 😂

@Donttalksboutpumpkinspiceyet

in general/settings there's a thing called focus, you can set it whenever you like or set a default 9f going to Do Not Disturb and taking it off at set times.

Maybe it’s the dinosaur in me coming out, but people used to answer the phone without knowing who was on the other end… it could have been a family member or a serial killer. No way of knowing until you answered the phone!

You didn't just answer the phone, you said, "Hello, Mytown 12345, Bearhug speaking," just in case your serial killer didn't already know exactly who you were.

Don't know IPhone settings but I bet principles are similar to Android, you'll be looking to switch off notifications and/or calls, possibly excluding certain VIP numbers such as immediate family.

Or the low tech solution, just turn the whole thing off 😁

Good lord. Lots of angst over nothing. If it’s a number you don’t know just ignore. If you get another text, then block.

Maybe it’s the dinosaur in me coming out, but people used to answer the phone without knowing who was on the other end… it could have been a family member or a serial killer. No way of knowing until you answered the phone!

Ooh I had similar once but there could have been repercussions.

I inadvertently inputted my sister‘s new phone number into my contacts with one wrong digit so unbeknown to me was texting some stranger in the train station while waiting for a train to visit her for the weekend.

I thought it was strange when I got there and she look puzzled when I said I’d sent her some chatty texts but we just got on with our weekend and forgot all about it.

a few weeks later back at home with DH (then DF) It was late at night and we were both watching TV on the sofa and my mobile went. And this bloke whose voice I didn’t recognise said “hi, how are you? What are you up to? How was your trip up north? sounds like the station was extra busy. Did you enjoy the weekend? Did you have a hangover on the Saturday, sounded you had a big night out planned at <> club. Were your mum and dad ok?”

Oh I got a fright, I can tell you. This guy knew all the details from that weekend and I just couldn’t figure out how. In that split second I thought I had a stalker who had followed me to the train station the night I went to visit my sister and even followed me to my home town as he seemed to know everything I did there! I was racking my brains thinking of who I knew who could be a weirdo stalker obsessed with me, and just spluttered “who is this?”

he said “it’s your boyfriend of course.” I got all weirded out as it was starting to feel like a scene from The Scream or as if I was in a parallel universe and DH, seeing my horrified and confused face, grabbed the phone off me and shouted “who the fuck is this? Who are you?”

The bloke on the phone insisted to DH that he was my boyfriend apparently. Luckily for me, DH didn’t believe him and just shouted “well, that’s funny because I’m her fiancé and I’m sat next to her right now” and slammed the phone down.

i guess I’m just lucky that DH wasn’t a paranoid type and thought I was having an affair! But I suppose he saw my confused face and was listening to me instead of going off one one all accusatory. And I just kept saying “but how does he know all those details?!”

DH is a sensible person who works in IT so we talked through the possibilities of how he might have got the details and next day when I talked to my sister it transpired that I’d put her number in wrong and a simple mistake like that had been what caused it all.

of course now that’s unlikely to happen with the “share contact” facility etc. but back then I bet situations like that happened fairly often with just one wrong digit . I’m just happy that DH believed me and not some shit-stirring random thinking it was funny to try and make out he was having an affair with me!

Let it go and turn your phone off at night

Wouldn't give it a second thought.

That's annoying. Don't be worrying though. It could be a scam so ignore and move on. And definitely don't ring it.