Not sure if this is spam or a real text from Verizon

lindaIL74

My sister recieved the following text and she FWD to me:

"(phone number) is a landline #. Reply Y to send all TXT messages to this # as voice messages for $0.25/msg. + std msg fee. Details @ vtext.com, TexttoLandline". This was from a 900080004222 number.

 

She doesn't think she tried to send a text to the house phone by accident but she's not sure. Could this be what it's about?

 

Thanks,

Linda

SuzyQ

It's legitimate - and your assessment (or hers) is correct - she tried to send a text to a landline.  It's happened to me before, and this is how--when I pulled the contact name up to send a text message, it defaulted to the home phone, and I just sent it off, thinking (or not thinking, really) that it was going to the cell phone.  When you are in your contact list, and editing a contact, one of the options for phone numbers is to set the phone # as default, either the home, cell or work.  If you don't set one, it seems to randomly pick one, possibly the first one you entered for that contact.

 

Then, if you simply type in their name as a contact, to call or text, it pulls the default unless you specifically choose a different number.  I'm willing to bet that's what happened!