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Phone hacking through SMS

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I am getting a SMS that seems to be a hacking command.
Can anyone tell what this command does?

[code redacted by Mod]
 
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boball#AC

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I got a SMS today seems to be a hacking command.

[code redacted by Mod]

On September 12, I had got an SMS from the same phone number which seems to be a hacking command too:

[code redacted by Mod]

It looks like someone is trying to run a file copy command ("dd") to copy the files on my phone to a remote ftp server.

Is this really happening?
Can anyone execute UNIX commands on Android phones just by sending an SMS?

I am very worried.
 
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dpham00

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Mod note,please do not post your personal Info on this public forum
 

B. Diddy

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In case the code you initially included in your post is actually malicious, I redacted that as well, to prevent other unscrupulous users from trying it out on other people.
 

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