111-047-0200

several text messages from number

14 year old received 71 instant messages wanting to know if she was 15 or 16 and wanting her to respond.  It was scary.  turned off the phone, took the batteries out and was still charged for the messages by cell phone carrier.

No call details, and I dont have any texts in my inbox either!
But I checked my cingular account, and supposedly I received 220 texts from that number...

Its making me mad, and my bill's is gonna be super high.

mei, the same thing happend to me,  i have a ton of texts from this number, and it says that i sent AND received from them, when i know for a fact i havent.  cingular needs to straighten up this crap ASAP

Well, I'm going to call AT&T right now! I don't pay my bill, I'm part of a family share plan, and if my friend finds this out, he's gonna be super pissed.

So AT&T can't do anything about it... but the representative I spoke to said sorry to me, and she told me that one of their applications is going to be re-released in 1 or 2 days.

It's called 'Smart Limits'... it's mainly for parental control stuff, but it's supposed to stop you from going over your text/IM limit. So, the moment I hit my 400 texts/IMs mark, the application is supposed to block outgoing and incoming texts and stuff... so for sure I'll be getting that. I really don't want to have to deal with this again.

Do you know if that "smart limits" application is going to be free?  or do they expect us to shell out an additional 9.99 or something for it?

I just checked my family plan and found this number as well.  It claims we sent messages to it.  We were using the video feature at that time.  Are we getting charged minutes for videoing????

okay i found out what this number is.  basically, any instant messages you sent/received using AIM were recorded as a text from/to 111-047-0200.

it's kind of weird, because I remember it used to say "IM" for instant messages.  now it just counts them as text messages, from the 111 number.

AT&T told me that it was instant messaging; problem is that I wasn't doing any instant messaging at the time (most are around 2-3 AM and I am always asleep at that time of the night).  Plus I got someone I don't know telling me that they are receiving text messages with my phone number on them as a caller id.  AT&T told me that someone might be using the yahoo messaging account to send messages using my phone.  But sounds like AT&T is having issues with the 111 are code numbers sending and receiving texts/IMs that people have never sent or received.

i was just checking my families account and although i haven't checked with them, i think it is when you put the cellphone symbol on your aim. as far as 2-3am in the morning, you may be awake, you may have to take into account what time zone is being shown 2-3am eastern time is 11pm pacific or 2-3am pacific is 5-6am eastern

I just checked my phone and have 10 pages of this crap and i never used it, i dont im or video. I am calling them in the morning and see what happens, So everyone cant get their money back?They wont take it off the bill?

This appears to be a ICQ scam, where IM's are sent and then converted to text messages.  May be a universal tag as well for other IM suppliers.  There is no such area code however.

I Just looked into my account and found a dozen of these phones numbers. The interesting part of it all. Allmost everytime this number appears, about 2-5 mins later I get a WAP charge... This all started happening last month

I have 47 of them on my bill this month and have NEVER Im'd anyone from my phone, nor have I received an IM on my phone (just text messages). AT&T said they are incoming from "someone" and there's nothing they can do, nor will they take them off of my bill. They are at crazy hours of the night and I do not have any children (teenagers) or anyone else in the house who would be playing games with my phone.

Noticed the same thing on my daughter's phone--many received and sent messages that took place in the early morning hours.

My daughter also has had this number on her bill for a couple of months now.  it is ususal early in the morning or late at night.  I questioned her on it thinking maybe she got a number out of a magazine.   She total denied knowing this number.  I have to believe there is more to this number then we our being told.  It sounds like it is trigging teens.  This is a scary.   Anymore info would be great.  I have a police friend looking into it also.  maybe he can come up with something.  I will post if he has any info.

I originally thought one of my son's friends was being a smart --- since I monitor internet traffic and phone calls, have ATT and Smart Limits, unfortunately, it still does not block.  He has no idea who this number is.  If you try to call it, it doesn't go through.  Ingoing and outgoing messages show up at times when he obviously is not using the phone.

Calls from this number also appear on my daughters (15 year old) phone.  She says she doesn't know who this is, she has never lied before, so I will take her at her word.

Very scary, and I hope AT& T take it seriously before someone gets hurt.

111-0470200 -- this is showing up on my daughter's phone.  After reading all these threads I am confused as to what the hell it is -- is it IMs or something else.  Does ANYBODY know for sure?