Sprecken zei espanjola???

[kapovski]

Sprecken zei espanjola??? (Wierd VDC 3G sms)

" Vodacom: You have used your monthly data bundle,and can continue at the out of bundle rate. NOTE:T¿ùTæ/Y£S?Ö棣$T$=G?T?LMæ?ÉsXò<<ÉÑÇS?NFWea_ÖùLÅ=åCSbDVèMM! "

I received this SMS on my 3G card this afternoon. I understand the part about using my monthyl bundel (that happens every month) but what is the rest all about?

 

[Beri]

no pienso que es español. miradas más bién extranjero
yep so vodacom are all aliens. no wonder we are having all this problems. the hq must be in pe as they are realy slow

 

[ic]

Almost deleted this thinking it was spam - until I looked past the thread title...

 

[Beri]

vodacom has my phone now for 7 weeks. trying to fix it. When will i get it back. @#$K knows and he is on leave, Or it was send to cripton for repairs

 

[kapovski]

thanks .... anyone have a cluie to the answer meaning of the sms though?

 

[ic]

NOTE:T¿ùTæ/Y£S?Ö棣$T$=G?T?LMæ?ÉsXò<<ÉÑÇS?NFWea_ÖùLÅ=åCSbDVèMM! "

Maybe someone decided to encrypt the usual irrelevant junk at the end of data usage SMSes:

Reminder, you can call 082110 for Vodacom Directory Enquiries.

v3g?

 

[internaut]

Almost deleted this thinking it was spam - until I looked past the thread title...

Thinking like a typical intergrated circuit I take it...

 

[ic]

My reply encoded as an SHA1 hash

Thinking like a typical intergrated circuit I take it...

08bd8d8b61fe44e15b93987e925f2218500c7c6e

 

[internaut]

Crap, I don't even know where to start decoding that.

 

[Beri]

le message indique nous donnent svp plus d'argent
it means give us more money
It work on the subconscious.
Aliens also use this form of comms.

 

[internaut]

le message indique nous donnent svp plus d'argent
it means give us more money
It work on the subconscious.
Aliens also use this form of comms.

Why would aliens want more money?

 

[Beri]

i hope the aliens did not come to vodacom for training in customer service.

 

[acidrain]

First i thought someone was just taking the piss with this post but now ive received 3 in less than 20min and it certainly aint ne language.... just a bunch of @ signs.

This is the one, the rest are very similar:
ø@@@E£@@¡T@@@?¥@@@£@@@@@@@@¡è@@@8@@@4ò@@@Ü@@@h?@@@<£@@¿pÅF§Ui!r#£@@@£@@@@@@@@@@@@@IsWù@@@@@dé"r¥
.Ö@pO§??*AHö@@@@ Ä$_y-@@@@p&z@S@@@@XM§?0@@@@h"?5@@@@@ é?.@Z@@@?QF >(@@@¡@@@@@@(£@XrWùH/THÉZh/


Has anyone found a reasoning for this?

 

[acidrain]

Can we get an answer please V3G?

Ok, im getting these weird sms's now from as little as 5min apart and its really p***ing me off as im sure you can figure out how many msg's that is in a day. The message types range from "Status reports", "Unknown SMS Message type" and even the ones with just characters.

Where and why are these messages been sent?

 

[Mr M]

Same here

Every so often I get those funny sms's.

Any idea how to turn it off?

 

[Aphrael]

the hq must be in pe as they are realy slow

Nope, they must be in Cape Town - They're not called the Mother City for nothing 'cos everything takes 9 months!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I'm glad my contract with vodac expires soon...

 

[acidrain]

Every so often I get those funny sms's.

Any idea how to turn it off?

I doubt you gonna get an answer anytime soon, ive been waiting for ages now but i assume not even they themselves know the problem which makes it even worst.

Good thing i was with MTN before cos now im using their dash <----- only way to switch it off

 

[acidrain]

I'm glad my contract with vodac expires soon...

Im glad i dont have one..... last time i had a contract ( Talk120 with SE P880i ), phone got stolen so tried to claim from the insurance i took out.... short story they said no so i stopped paying for the contract. 8 mnths later they wanted me to pay all the subscription fees (which was R315/m ) up to that date so i told them "no probelm, only if you credit me with all my minutes due for those 8mnths which was about close to 1000min"... soon after vodacom dropped the story and i was set free

 

[vodacom3g]

Sorry, somehow I thought I answered this . Normally when ic talks, I jump!

Where are these SMS's coming through? In the VMC dash?

If so, it might be an old problem we had a while ago. some of the older modem firmware / VMC software versions had a problem in interpreting non-SMS messages as a SMS. An MMS, for example.

I think it was specifically with Huawei modems.

So, the first step would be to upgrade everything to the latest versions and see if it helps?

How many of you fall into the above?

Who do not?