Question about telephone number spoofing 08-03-2019, 05:28 PM
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Hey guys, I've read a few threads on here pertaining to cellular number spoofing and haven't really gained a clear vision. Some say you need a PBX and others say its done using voip. Im wondering exactly how people like scam callers can emulate my phone number for someone else, not even necessarily people I know? My assumption is Voip uses mechanisms similar to SMTP in that you can put a different sender / receiver address than that of the true sender? Similar in mechanism to spoofing an email essentially. I'm assuming this is also why you don't get spam text messages as your phone "resolves" the phone number back to your actual phone so the scammer wouldn't be able to receive any information, only send. This then pushes the scammer to simply make a call instead? Let me know what you guys think.
Edit: Want to make clear I'm not talking about burner numbers. I mean the physical mechanism by which you spoof your "from" address when making a call. Say you're number is 111-111-1111 and you call someone and it shows as 000-000-0001.
Edit: Want to make clear I'm not talking about burner numbers. I mean the physical mechanism by which you spoof your "from" address when making a call. Say you're number is 111-111-1111 and you call someone and it shows as 000-000-0001.
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2019, 05:30 PM by XIan.)
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