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roopower | 22:02 Fri 14th Nov 2014 | Technology
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I've had a text, supposedly from my daughter, which says "
I've sent you a T-Mobile/video message. Go to https://149.254.201.140/T-Mobile/ your message is valid for 7 days.
I did as the text asked and was warned off, I didn't read it that well as it scared me, but I had a ' safety' button.
My daughter doesn't know anything about it, can anybody shed any light, please.
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I had something similar when someone tried to call me from a phone fitted with a brand new unregistered PAYG SIM. The phone shop sorted it out.
16:32 Sat 15th Nov 2014
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Thanks, methyl. I'll go and speak to them, though my daughter says she hasn't sent anything I haven't received for ages. It was definitely attributed to her.
I've had these before. The phone number it came from is on orange?
I've done a full tracert on that address and it does belong to T-Mobile. The tracert goes through to the London exchange then through one of Orange's server locations (shared). It's a legitimate link. What number was it sent from?
inetnum: 149.254.201.0 - 149.254.201.255
netname: TMUK-Byte-ACS
descr: T-Mobile(UK) Byte ACS LAN
country: Gb
admin-c: TMUK1-RIPE
tech-c: TMUK1-RIPE
status: LEGACY
mnt-by: TMUK1-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
role: T-Mobile UK IP Admin
address: T-Mobile UK Hatfield Business Park Hatfield Hertfordshire AL10 9BW UK
abuse-mailbox: [email protected]
admin-c: RO1355-RIPE
mnt-by: TMUK-MNT
tech-c: GR1506-RIPE
tech-c: BS44-RIPE
nic-hdl: TMUK1-RIPE
source: RIPE # Filtered % Information related to '149.254.201.0/24AS29328'
route: 149.254.201.0/24
descr: T-Mobile UK
origin: AS29328
mnt-by: TMUK-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
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Thank you so much Dizmo. As my daughter knew nothing about it,I deleted the message in the end but I think it was from one of the 149.254.201 numbers

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