How to send an anonymous text?

With my family we're doing secret santa and I was pulling the names out of a hat no one know who is doing it this year except me and I want to let everyone know who they have for secret santa by sending them all texts with a hidden id like you can do with a call and it comes up with 'caller id blocked' I can send the texts from an iphone 4 or 5 or a galaxy s3.

Well from my iPhone 3G I can go into Settings > Phone > Caller ID but I don't know if it's any different to the newer generations or the galaxy: P

Put 141 before the number (england)

As far as i know that is not possible but i have done a bit of searching and found this for you: www.141txt.com - apparently you can send withheld text messages from your phone. It seems to be a premium rate service

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