>>> Looks like typical spam email nonsense words.
>> ...except it's not email.
> 
> Granted, but a lot of the spam our server is blocking has much the same
> types of disconnected words. Guess it is some form of probe - if you reply
> to it, you're promptly buried - since some script or program somewhere
> is "listening". I. e. some people will be stupid enough to hit reply on
> that and say something like "huh? wrong number" and -that- signifies to
> whomever is spamming that that cellphone (email) is "alive" and being read
> by -someone-.

Yeah, it's a standard technique for email. I've never seen it used for 
SMS though...

(The other day, I made the mistake of clicking the "unsubscribe" link on 
a Computer Weekly email. Sense then I've started getting burried with 
emails from those morons!)

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