has this ever happend to anyone?

[dragonfly]

I was sending an MMS message to my gf and when she got it it had a completely diff guys number showing and not mine? has this ever happend to anyone?

[My-Q]

Not to me that I know of.

[rudeboy]

never happened to me, you're sure she isn't receiving someone else's mms messages ?

[dragonfly]

positive it was my screen shot i took on my phone lol.

[rudeboy]

Originally Posted by dragonfly

positive it was my screen shot i took on my phone lol.

i was just messing with you... i could have answered with a simple no although if you do the forum software says your reply is too short. anyway... does it only happen if you mms to your gf or also to other recipients ?

[mikemcq]

If you are forwarding this to her, the original persons number shows up, I forwarded something to my sister that my GF sent me, and at the bottom of the message my GF number was there. It confused my sister, but after she told me about it, i figured out what it was..

[dragonfly]

no i didnt forward it to her and i just started to send mms messages last night to her to show her screen shots of my new home screen. and she said she got one this morning that i did send her, but it had another number. oh well prob just a fluke we'll see if this happends again.

[rudeboy]

hmz... did you (or she) try to contact whoever was sending that mms ?

[troutseth]

YES . . . happened to me. It cleared itself up later that day. I called Verizon and they had no clue. My best guess is that there server had a little hiccup.

[pyrobling]

There are two possible answers. Either the above answer was right and the MSC messed up its switch and sent out the wrong MDN(Mobile Directory Number).

Or I thought of something weird....When you activate service you are give your MDN...this is the number you hand out to people. Now the MSC is what handles your calls and switchs them on the towers and sends it to the other side. Now when you active your MDN you also have a MIN (Mobile Identification Number) which the MSC sees and associates with your phone number (MDN). To see if the phone put the MIN on the message and not your MDN simply call. Oddly enough if you call your MIN it will still call your mobile, so technically you get 2 numbers but only the 1 is important to you.

If you call and someone else answers, then the MSC errored and you should call VZW and get a credit of some kind. Now if you call that number and your phone rings, you just learned your MIN and are 1 of 2 customers I know of that has theirs. My MIN is not even the same area code, as a sidenote.

-A