Need help translating unsolicited Spanish text messages

Question

I got a couple of unsolicited Spanish text messages. I ran them through several online translation sites but the translations didn't make sense to me. Can anyone give me a meaningful translation? I would like to know if these were sent to me by mistake or are SMS spam.

Thanks. Here are the messages:

1. aralis hija dice mama que si por favor le puedes mandarle para comprar unas medicinas te amo

2. soy lety dice mama le puedes mandar para conprar unas medicinas

Answer 1

I also think they were sent to a 'wrong number' - you. I would interpret: •aralis hija dice mama que si por favor le puedes mandarle para comprar unas medicinas te amo Aralis, girl, mama says that if you could please send her (money obviously) to buy some medicine - I love you

•soy lety dice mama le puedes mandar para conprar unas medicinas This is Lety, mama says you can send her (money) to buy some medicine

Answer 2

There are pretty hard to tell without punctuation. These are also so convoluted, grammatically, that they don't make sense.

The first one is asking someone if she/he can send someone else to buy some medicines. Also saying to that person "I love you."

The second one seems to be a follow up to the first one.

If the "le puedes" in both sentences were "te puedes" the sentences would make a little more sense, but they're still confusing.

By the way, welcome to the forum. There are a lot of resources here.

Answer 3

Thank you everyone for the advice and assistance. What a nice forum. Makes me wish I spoke Spanish.

Answer 4

Hola,

We all need to be very careful about how we respond to text messages from unknown sources.

May I suggest, that you Google - cell phone bill cramming and cell phone phishing. In addition I would suggest simply deleting, unopened, any message from an unknown sender.

Answer 5

They are not nonsense and don´t seem to have the any obvious value as spam. In my experience, people texting (in English or Spanish) often use very questionable spelling and no punctuation, so you could be getting them by accident. What to do about that, I don´t know...