I guess the latter, as the sheep thing seems to have many followers. I say this because I have received mail from an American gentleman explaining that sheep foetus had miraculous effects on him, especially when injected in his buttocks. I kid you not.

Your message is funny because it suggests possible uses of the system, like spying on the competition or on your extramarital affair, LOL.

BTW, some of the best sms I have seen are the ones directed to corrupt officials, for example:

We have been caught, quickly send all the money to this account: XXXXX and we will hide all the evidence

If the ratio of 贪官 (corrupt officers) is as high as I suppose, then that message has good chances to get you rich I cannot find it now but I will cover it here when I receive it again.

‘创新’公司可制作和对方同号手机号码，可接听对方是商业竞争和婚外恋的好帮手，先测试后付款。请电：X

“A good help for those with extramarital affairs.” I have to save that sometimes China’s speed of development is too fast even for me.

I’m not sure you get these messages because you handed out your name card. I just got a new phone number last year, and I’m already getting tons of these.

I am glad that you solved the “sheep” mistery. That was really tricky to translate because even my Chinese friend didn’t know if it was referring to sheep or to (human) placentas. I guess I should have Baidued it a bit, but I forgot…

The next question now is: do people really go to Switzerland for that? And if they do, do they organize it through an unbranded sms junk message like this? Don’t know, but I have seen more weird things than this in China.