Help Text Message Disappears After Forwarding

[DolphinsFan]

I have a question about what my wife stated to me. She said she received a text message from a bogus number (I guess people can go out and send text messages from bogus numbers so it can't be traced back to their number). It was a very rude comment and she forwarded it to me. She claims (having a hard time believing her "claim") that after she sent it to me, it disappeared off of her phone. I immediately thought of a James Bond movie - self-destructing messages....lol. Well I went in to my Verizon account to see the history of her phone with text messages. Lo and behold, there wasn't any record of her receiving a text message during that time. So my suspicion is that she created the message, sent it to herself (because that was recorded in the history), and tried to blame it on some random individual.

So with all that said, has anyone experienced text messages "disappearing" after forwarding them? Also, does anyone know how I can retrieve the actually text message content and not just the history (who sent it and what date and time)?

 

[Hadron]

I've not heard of this, though it would be a very odd thing to make up. There are other messaging services which send self-destructing messages, but I've not heard of vanilla SMS deleting themselves.

There's no way I know of retrieving the content of a deleted message. There are some backup apps that will automatically back up received messages (SMS Backup+ comes to mind), but unless one of those was already installed and set up that's irrelevant now.

 

[amarie82]

You can check with your carrier about getting info on time stamps but as for the actual message itself you will most likely need a subpoena

 

[lunatic59]

Does your wife use hangouts for text messages? By forwarding it, it's quite possible that she simply moved it to a new conversation. And, if the logs show that the sender was the number as your wife's phone, a crafty spammer might spoof the recipient's number the same way you can get spam emails that look like you sent them to yourself.

Let's keep speculation, motive and legalities to a minimum. We don't want this to turn into one of "thooooose" threads.

 

[DolphinsFan]

Does your wife use hangouts for text messages? By forwarding it, it's quite possible that she simply moved it to a new conversation. And, if the logs show that the sender was the number as your wife's phone, a crafty spammer might spoof the recipient's number the same way you can get spam emails that look like you sent them to yourself.

Let's keep speculation, motive and legalities to a minimum. We don't want this to turn into one of "thooooose" threads.

No she doesn't and I can appreciate your concern with legalities and speculation. Thanks for the input.

 

[DolphinsFan]

You can check with your carrier about getting info on time stamps but as for the actual message itself you will most likely need a subpoena

I agree about getting the actual message but thought I'd ask because that's the only way I've heard of obtaining them as well. Thanks!