Dnia 2.02.2022 o godz. 21:31:04 Scott Mutter via mailop pisze: > Instant > messaging and SMS can't as easily be spoofed, they may be fake but senders > have to register on the platform in some way
Here in Poland we are now right in the middle of a real-life "experiment" that will probably show how telecoms, and people in general, will cope with phone number spoofing. Since months there is an ongoing activity of scammers who call random people spoofing real bank phone numbers, trying to trick them into installing remote access software on their devices that will the scammers give access to their bank account. There is also a massive wave of spoofed SMS posing as messages from delivery companies, electricity providers etc. informing about some payment being due and with a link leading to fake payment gateways set up to intercept bank account credentials. Just recently something new has appeared: someone calls politicians, celebrities and other publicly known persons, using spoofed phone numbers of public institutions or other politicians, celebrities etc., insulting them, issuing death threats, or "informing" them (posing as eg. a policeman) that someone of their family has died, etc. We will see where this will lead to... -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
