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Hey people,

First of all: Sorry in case this is not the right section to post this. Did not know where to put this else.

As the title indicates: I am receiving very weird messages probably once every week or two. 

I copied one of them below (in bold).

 

Sòmé ärê bórn wêìrd, sõmë àchîëvè ît, ôthërs hàvè wéìrdnèss thrűst űpõn thëm. Jâskô_SOA

 

I thought about creating a topic with regard to these messages ages ago, but today a colleague asked me if I am receiving these weird messages as well, so now I am really curious about what you guys think about that.

Are you getting these kind of messages too?

Moreover: What do you think is the point of them? Clearly they are not advertising anything, not even some webcam websites  lol.

thx in advance

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First time I've read something like this. Aside from the usual cambot messages that prompted me to block mesagges from everyone but friends, I had no idea there were others.

 

It may be a variation, focusing instead in phishing through triggering a response from the user.

 

EDIT: I tried searching for the phrase, it's from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. I'll link the page of the script where it's said. Go to the part after Malvolio is talking, and under the section labeled "(he reads)".

 

https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/twelfthnight/page_110/

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7 minutes ago, Jasko_SOA said:

Seriously? So there is nothing you could do about that? 

 

It's been reported before. It's mostly related to special characters and such, since the console dictionary doesn't recognize some symbols, which may cause a data corruption.

Solutions to the problem where to review the privacy policies on your account, and set it to Only Friends when it comes to messages.

 

Some reports about the issue, from 2018, when it was booming.

https://mashable.com/article/playstation-4-malicious-message-bricking-consoles/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/gaming/sony-playstation-4-crashes-from-messages-with-symbols-fix-the-problem/

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/message-with-strange-characters-will-cause-playstation-4-to-crash.html

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15 minutes ago, Helyx said:

Hay baybee. Cum see my liveshow: https://thotz.webexploit.de/britknee

Yes, that stuff always seems to find me too. ?

 

Just so you know, if you only accept messages from friends, keep in mind that also goes for people you planned a gaming session with. You can't be added to message groups of receive messages from the other gamers unless you add them to your friendlist.

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I've been getting these recently as well, but I find it annoying changing my privacy settings over and over again. When I'm boosting with people from this site they cant message me because of my current settings so I disable it, and then after the boosting session I change it back again lol

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