Max Peterson (Shane West) is a computer engineer, who receives a gift of a new hi tech cell phone. It sends him messages that help him to win lots of cash from stocks, casinos and hotel discounts. He soon attracts the attention of the casino security, ex F.B.I. agent John Reed (Edward Burns), a Russian General (Yuriy Kutsenko), and the NSA agent Raymond Burke (Martin Sheen). Max runs out of the building into F.B.I. Agent Dave Grant (Ving Rhames) whoforces Max into helping to find out who is sending the texts but the phone now starts to threaten Max. They have to find out where the text is coming from.