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The origin of the text could be an application that has the privilege of sending SMS from the owner of the phone that it's running on and reading the phone's contacts. I suggest looking through applications on the phone in the systems menu and determining what the privileges allowed for each app is, especially newly downloaded or newly upgraded ...
Can I determine the actual sender of a spoofed text message? I received a text message yesterday that appeared to come from one of my contacts, but he did not send it. I contacted my carrier (Verizon) and they said that because the sender used third party software, they couldn't tell me where it originated.
If an attacker could time things correctly (again this is an unrealistic example) he or she could initiate a few fake texts to you to determine your average text response speed at 3pm or so then send you a well timed question looking for a 'Y' or 'N' response that is in turn being sent back to the spoofed bank number.
Does the text my friend received from my number imply one of us has a virus? I'm concerned this is the case because either a virus on my phone sent spam out to the # I contact the most (this friend), or a virus on my friend's phone brought up spam spoofed from the # they contact the most (me).
4. To echo James' response. It is entirely possible for someone to send you something for a number that doesn't belong to them. This will usually be criminals trying to get you to click a link and steal credentials. Whether this is likely will be dependant on the nature of the message received. If the message is generic and contains a link then ...
Oct 27, 2017 at 3:08. Yes, as I said, any message (SMS or iMessage) can be inserted into the local database and it'll look like whatever you set it up as. There is a column in the database called service which is either iMessage or SMS. You simply add a new row and fill it out and bam. – Allison.
The best way to detect if the message was spoof or not is to check the message-center. Normally, a spoofed source will have the message-center shows different gateway from the network of the gateway where the originating source is. Ex. Spoofed ID: VERIZON Message-centre: +927566004455.
The common terminology of SMS spoofing means the following: Bob, Alice and John are all people with cell phones. Bob and Alice are friends in each-others contact lists, John is evil. John wants to send a message to Alice that looks like it came from Bob saying "I hate you". Using some publicly available apps and websites (often free) John can ...
Let's start with how an SMS is sent (very basic description): The sender sends a message sending request to his serving support node. This request contains the message itself, the destination, and the SMSC (the sender's SMSC). The request is then forwarded to the service centre of the SMSC and stored there.
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