My wife and I have received a dozens of spam messages like that as well, we're  on 2degrees 

thanks for that - they keep coming in....

have bounced some to DIA as per above.

My mum had one of these yesterday on her android with google messages. She's 027 and the other number was 027. Something along the lines of a package coming from Russia. She reported it as spam and told me after. +1 to google for this feature as I assume they will use this to improve their auto-spam filters.

Another good flurry overnight and have spent this morning sending them to DIA - all 12 of them.

Thank goodness for "do not disturb" setting on the phone.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126524491/mobile-users-being-deluged-with-scam-texts-2degrees-and-vodafone-nz-warn 

Similar thread too SPAM Text last few days? (geekzone.co.nz)

so it looks like the originating numbers are legitimate and that those numbers phones have been compromised by a vulnerability.

one client has received about 200.... he called one of the numbers and spoke to someone who appeared to not be a scammer but just an unwitting nz based subscriber.

dimsim:

 

so it looks like the originating numbers are legitimate and that those numbers phones have been compromised by a vulnerability.

 

How do we know that it's devices being compromised? I would have thought it more likely that it's just spoofing of the phone numbers.

Do we even know what app it is?

edit: oh... but it still doesn't really answer what exact app it's originating from or the name