IPhone Restarts When Receiving a Text from Android

A person I know has started sending me text messages with characters my iPhone 5 can't read (or that's what I think is happening). Whenever I get these texts my phone restarts once for each text I receive. The exact same thing happens to my friend who has a 4S. Then whenever I hit the Messages app it crashes immediately. I can only reply to texts if I hit the notification when I receive one from a different person.
The way I've found to fix this is to use Siri to send a message to someone but hit the actual message, it loads up the different chats and I can delete the entire thing. Then he'll send another. Without paying $4 a month to block the number, how can I prevent this from happening? It's that string of arabic letters that completey screws over the phone.

May just be something in her contact info (corrupt contact picture or something) that causes code to lock up.
I would suggest deleting contact from phone.
Then delete contact from your address book on computer you sync with.
Then add contact back to computer fresh.
Then sync to get it back on phone.
Then reset any settings for that contact (ringtone etc).
Also note if her contact is the only one that uses a custom ringtone you may have, it could also be the ringtone.
Note, I am just guessing on this stuff but would be a logical course of action to take to determine.
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