Kenyans are reporting receiving bizarre, scrambled text messages from various institutions, including M-Shwari, banks, hospitals, and even the Judiciary. These garbled SMS appear as a chaotic mix of numbers, letters, and symbols, leading to widespread confusion.

• The SMS appeared to be a chaotic cocktail of numbers, random letters, special symbols, and what looked like keyboard rage.
• Recipients reported these texts from a range of organizations, including Safaricom's M-Shwari, Co-operative Bank, the Judiciary, and Gertrude's Hospital.
• While no official explanation has been issued, plausible technical scenarios include encoding/decoding glitches in bulk SMS systems, hiccups from bulk SMS aggregators, corrupt transmission, or accidental pushes of internal test messages.