Many customers on Verizon and its MVNO Visible have reported receiving spam text messages from their own phone number over the last few days (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / TheVerge:

Many customers on Verizon and its MVNO Visible have reported receiving spam text messages from their own phone number over the last few days— Did you recently get a spam text… from yourself? You’re not alone — This morning, I received a very blatant spam text offering me “a little gift” for supposedly paying my phone bill.