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When Donovan Shears sent a text message to a random number in 1998, it changed the course of his life. He had been given his first mobile phone for his 18th birthday and had just discovered text ...

TEMPORARY LOCATIONS. IT STARTS WITH A STRANGE TEXT MESSAGE FROM SOMEONE. YOU DO NOT KNOW. IT MAY SEEM LIKE A MISTAKE, BUT IT COULD BE A LITTLE MORE SINISTER. IT COULD BE THE START OF A SCAM. WE’VE ...

A woman has described how a text message accidentally sent to a wrong number changed her life forever, comparing it to the plot of a "Hallmark movie." In 2009, Brenda Stearns, who moved to the U.S.