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Is this new? (Not noobie iOS7 Question)
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I meant how did they format it so that it appeared as such?
Just because he got a flash message, doesn't mean he's jailbroken. It's possible to recieve without, and as long as the spammer is capable of sending flash messages, it doesn't matter what terminal the end user (in this case ZeroBeat) is using as long as it's compatible with these. Old phones as old as Nokia 3210 etc. can also do this.
I am not the Search Police, I simply don't have any links bookmarked and am getting the kids off to their first day of school (yay!).
Do a search for Class-0 (or "flash") SMS message both in this forum and Google to get more information as this question occasionally comes up. The last thread I saw ended with there is nothing you can do about it, but I'm obviously not familiar with all the different Telco capabilities.
Supposedly there are websites where you can send these class-0 SMS messages but I never found one that worked.
There is nothing wrong with your phone and it isn't compromised. I'll come back to this thread later this morning to see if you're still getting bad information and try to provide some links if you haven't found anything.
It seems that the fact this was spam was known from the beginning, it was more of a question of whether it is new (it's not) and what might be causing or (often nothing specific as there are simply sites and software tools to spam people with these types of messages).
Don't think anything like that exists when it comes to iOS--the OS install files have to be signed by Apple and get verified with Apple during the installation, so nothing aside from official Apple installs can really happen.
That aside, this has already been shown to be just another version of SMS-like spamming (using flash messages) which is completely unrelated to anything you might have installed or anything at all--just someone sending that type of message to the phone, nothing more.
One would seem surprisingly I got it legally as one should through the developer program with my $99 bucks in.