My Nokia Lumia has sent text messages inviting friends to click on a video link..how did these text messages get sent?

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My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

I haven't sent these texts. All I can find are comments that its not possible to get infected with a virus.. if this is the case how did these texts get sent... and is there anything I can do to fix the issue? Thanks in advance!

 

[wpguy]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

Do originals show up as sent texts on your phone? Taking a guess that someone is spoofing your phone number on their own device.

 

[920Walker]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

Have you ever seen said videos using the Lumia in question?

 

[Wilfs Mum]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

Hi, thanks for answering... the texts aren't in my sent items... if it were a random spammer using my number how would they know to send to my friends numbers? Thx in advance!

 

[Wilfs Mum]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

Hi, I told them not to open the video... do you think they should open? Thanks!

 

[Wilfs Mum]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

By the way I am the original poster - just registered so I could reply

 

[e4et]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

Hi, I told them not to open the video... do you think they should open? Thanks!

Ask one of them to send it back, then you open it

 

[Wilfs Mum]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

Ask one of them to send it back, then you open it

Oh! I'm scared to do that :unhappysweat:

 

[920Walker]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

What model phone and OS version?

Clicking the link is akin to pushing a shiny, red button with no idea what it will do.

 

[Wilfs Mum]

Re: My nokia lumia has sent texts inviting friends to click on a video link...

What model phone and OS version?

Clicking the link is akin to pushing a shiny, red button with no idea what it will do.

Lumia 520 8.1 OS 8.10.14219.341

I checked with IE if anything had stored anything to my phone (I've now checked to not allow this) and a website HAD stored something; and funnily enough it was from a site that I'd gone to that behaved very strangely and I remember leaving it quickly... I have deleted the stored files. Do you think that might be related? Thanks for you help

 

[920Walker]

If it is related it's the first I've heard of it. I've heard of such things happening using Facebook, but not on Windows phones.