<p>I recently had a strange experience when a person I texted returned the text via forward after becoming really confused as to what I meant. I was very surprised because the text received was not the same words as the text I sent and still had in my outbox! About half of the words matched precisely and the other half (the first half or so) was an entirely unrelated couple sentences that I did not draft recently and tend to think I never drafted at any point in time (though I am not 100% sure that I didn't draft it 2 or more months ago). </p>
<p>So I sent a text of four sentences but the first two sentences were omitted in what was received and they were replaced by two sentences that I certainly never drafted in the last 2 months and perhaps are not my writing at all. </p>
<p>I realize that there are packets here and messages can be split up and thus arrive occasionally in jumbled orders or long delays also. But it seems to me to violate the "laws" of the "internet" (er, texting) for a message to NOT be split into packets but somehow have unrelated language substituted for what is probably the first packet of a two packet text, especially when its quite likely the substituted two sentences are something I never wrote to anybody at any time, and if I did write those substituted sentences it could only have been over 2 months ago and to a Different person than the one who received the confusing text from me, with only the second half of it correct. </p>
<p>Whatever went on here AMOUNTS to mail tampering, even though likely no intent to tamper, because after I sent a message, a very different message was received shortly thereafter. This transmission was between two Samsung Galaxy phones on Verizon share everything plan, in case that helps. Who wants to "share" this way? </p>
<p>Anybody have any ideas how this can happen? It certainly undermines the reliability of written texts as communication or as evidence if what you sent is not what is received and the words are half different and the substituted words don't come from any recent traffic of mine or the person I texted with. Thanks for any responded here or offline. <br>
Paul Lehto, J.D. </p>