What are these weird text messages I keep getting?

I have been getting texts from 1-001-980-30192
brew:0x01034fd9:1,,1283648011 and so on.... what the heck are these, how are they being generated?

budone wrote:
That message is tied to your old phone receiving a message to get your emails. However on the your newer phone it fails. As stated tech support can correct it rater quickly or if you are adventurous Google the issue and you can fix it yourself, but tech support is easier.
I got one too yesterday from 6200 with the same or similar message. Already deleted it. I never had gotten my emails on my old phone. It was a simple feature flip phone.

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