I’ve been receiving several text messages in the middle of the night from an Ithaca phone number that I don’t recognise. To be clear, the messages are coming in the middle of the night in Australia, where I am. They may be being sent at a normal hour from Ithaca.

The messages look like they are spam, not intentionally sent messages. But they are listed as coming from the phone number 229-4563. If that’s your phone, then you may have some kind of virus that’s sending out spam messages. You might want to do something about this so you don’t run up a huge phone bill. And so I won’t be woken by my phone going off in the middle of the night.