IT COULD BE THE START OF A SCAM. WE’VE BEEN HEARING FROM A GROWING NUMBER OF VIEWERS ABOUT THESE TEXT MESSAGES THAT SEEM TO BE RANDOM AT FIRST. MESSAGES LIKE THIS THAT SIMPLY ASK, HOW ARE YOU?

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Thousands of people may have gotten very awkward text messages Wednesday night ... Nearly 170,000 numbers received texts that were just delivered, but were actually ...

Random numbers are essential for secure cyber communications ... little one-time PIN through a text message? And then type it into your computer, and then we'll know it's you.

Kirsty and Donovan were brought together by one random, apparently made-up phone number When Donovan Shears sent a text message to a random number in 1998, it changed the course of his life.

The static from a old radio is a form of random ... text since that could allow them to read the secret message. People have long sought external sources of randomness as the basis of random ...

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 ...