Google Voice SMS bug: outbound texts sent from random numbers

Posted by semenko on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @12:02PM
from the self-post dept.

Best summarized as: "Major @googlevoice fail today. Eight texts from me to my wife came from eight different phone numbers." https://twitter.com/travispew/status/265858873498402816

Ongoing support thread: https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/voice/OUmPhUpujjs/discussion

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Re:Google Voice SMS bug: outbound texts sent from random num... by waraey on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @05:38PM (#4751209)

This is the intended behavior. They piggy back off of a large group of local numbers. For texts they assign one to you for a short period then put it back in the pool.

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Re:Google Voice SMS bug: outbound texts sent from random num... by smartwater on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @02:46PM (#4750282)

A few months ago I had a Google Voice number that they also assigned to another person, while I was actively using it. Happened to a friend too.

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