The US Army is warning Americans about “fraudulent text messages” falsely telling Americans they have been drafted into military service.

The fake texts instruct the recipient to report to the nearest Army recruiting branch “for immediate departure to Iran.” 

Screenshots of the texts provided by US Army Recruiting Command showed spelling and grammatical errors, indicating they were not official correspondence. Some of the fake texts even used real names of Army recruiting commanders.

It is still unclear how many of these fake recruiting texts may have been sent, and Army security officials are still investigating the source.

US military conscription was suspended in the 1970s. To resume the draft, Congress would need to enact legislation, according to the Selective Service System, the independent agency that would manage the draft in an emergency.