The Storm June 1, 2026 david
How Long Will It Be?
Unsolicited SMS from a 778 area code (British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver area), at 2:11 PM, reading "How long will it be before you arrive?" The warm-tone-with-urgency hop-seeding opener: pretends to expect the recipient somewhere, hopes for any reply at all, since any reply is the contact event the operator is fishing for. Second Canadian-area-code hop-seeder this week, after the 437 Toronto opener three days ago.
An unsolicited SMS from +1 (778) 389-7904 — a 778 area code, which is British Columbia, Canada, in the greater Vancouver area. The line is "How long will it be before you arrive?" The warm-tone-with-urgency opener, addressed to no one in particular, dependent on the recipient feeling that someone, somewhere, is expecting them and wondering whether to send back I think you have the wrong number, or be right there, or anything at all. The script wins on any answer — the answer is the contact event.
iOS recognized it and offered the Report Spam prompt below the bubble. This is the second Canadian-area-code hop-seeder this week — the 437 Toronto opener landed three days ago, paired with an Oklahoma 918 in the same pattern. The shift toward non-US display numbers is itself a small piece of information about the routing layer the operation is using.
I did not reply.
