Cell Phone spam message has "wife's name" in from field

Life Technology
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I don’t know if this happens to others. It should. It happened to me over the years on different phones and different cell phone plans. Here is what happens.

If it comes from an unknown source, think I usually get the sales pitch in the subject line. Actually, I’m not sure, I don’t pay attention to spam messages.
If I get a message from a contact, his or her name shows up.
But, sometimes, I get a message that says it’s from a contact. I open it and it turns out to be spam.

The funny thing, it usually looks like it comes from my wife, no matter what contact name I use for her or what her order number is in the phone list.

Is there some kind of “command” spammers use to find the most called number on your phone and append that contact name to their e-mail. It is really strange. No, my wife did not send the messages to me. Here phone was off and next to me when the message was received.

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You mean it shows her first name as sender? Her full name? The nickname you use for her?

If it’s her first name, and her first name is not a terribly unusual first name, i’d bet it’s just coincidence. My own experience is that except for a few European friends, nobody in Japan or Taiwan who sends me mail uses just their first name in the FROM field, and whenever i see a first name only sender with a Japanese message i can count on it that it’s spam

Would something like that apply in your situation?

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Do you and your wife use the same telco?

Kenneth

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It happened again. I got the same spam message but this time it appeared to be from another person in my contact database. If I can capture the message from my phone, I’ll paste it here. This is really strange.