Someone is sending me messages in the form of notifications that appear from different apps

[eddlang]

In the past two days I've got two notifications from a random person under the name of "hn?" (without quotations), calling me names, which have appeared under two different apps, one is a banking app and another is a local listing app.

However, when I open the apps there is no message in them, and AFAICT the banking app does not even have a messaging function for users.

The messages are written in the local language but with english letters. It's probably one of the broker guys from the local listing app who I rejected his request and is now bothering me anonymously.

It's a Galaxy A34 that recently was updated to One UI 7. Its built-in McAfee scanner hasn't found anything suspicious. I don't install suspicious apps, and haven't installed anything new in a while anyway. The phone is not rooted.

How is this even done? Is it possible to send messages in the form of notifications?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! The next time you get one of those notifications, swipe down the notification panel and take a screenshot of it, and then post it here for us to see (blocking out any identifying information first).

Also, long-press that notification in the notification panel and show us what information shows up.

 

[spARTacus]

On PC in a browser, it's not hard to accept to receive notifications from a website. And then, for the website to send crafty notifications that appear to be valid other notifications, in order to trick users into thinking they need to do something or that they have received something else, falling deeper into a trap. Maybe also check your site settings in whatever browsers you use, to see what ones might have permission to send notifications.