Is it possible to send a sms text to someone’s iPhone and make it appear that they replied to a number that they did not reply to?

I received a text from a number in my iMessages and then synced with iCloud and therefore showed up on my iPhone that I do not recognize. The strange thing is that there is no conversation thread. The only text showing looks like it came from my phone replying back to them saying Hi with an emoji after the Hi. It is very odd because it looks like it was me who replied but I did not. And there was no prior message before this Hi, only the Hi coming from my end. Is it possible to send a text to someone and make it appear that they replied to this unknown number?