If you own a Galaxy phone, there's a good chance last night you received a mysterious notification from Samsung.
As The Verge reports, Galaxy phone owners around the world yesterday received a notification from Samsung's Find My Mobile service which consisted of the number one repeated twice on separate lines.
The weird notification was met with concern by many recipients who confirmed it was received on some Galaxy tablets, too. The Samsung Community post asking for more information about the notification generated 330 replies and is 34 pages long, demonstrating just how many people received it.
It's not until you get to page 22 of those replies that a Samsung Care Ambassador named Rydah steps in to guess as to why Samsung did this. He says, "From what I can tell, this is a some test on Samsung's end to assure services are working. U expect Samsung will make an official statement explaining but I want to mention it now to hopefully put some of you at ease. I hope this helps."
While Rydah's comment may put some minds at rest, it doesn't fill you with confidence if the Care Ambassadors at Samsung aren't being briefed in advance. However, it does seem like this was a legitimate test that Samsung completely failed to handle from a PR standpoint.
Thankfully, Rydah wasn't far off the mark. This morning Samsung UK confirmed in a tweet that, "This notification was confirmed as a message sent unintentionally during internal testing and there is no effect on your device. Samsung apologises for any inconvenience this may have caused to our customers and will work to prevent similar cases from occurring in the future."
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