Wait how the hell can you name your message's sender? I thought they were plain numbers unless marked in your phonebook
Pretending to be some blokes mum to get him to come to the festival known as *Parklife*
[QUOTE=damnatus;46643343]Wait how the hell can you name your message's sender? I thought they were plain numbers unless marked in your phonebook[/QUOTE]
my mobile network comes through at tesco, dominos comes through as dominos.
[QUOTE=damnatus;46643343]Wait how the hell can you name your message's sender? I thought they were plain numbers unless marked in your phonebook[/QUOTE]
Google has a Caller ID service where it looks up businesses with that number, like a reverse Yellow Pages, I'm guessing Apple does the same thing
[QUOTE=kaze4159;46643424]Google has a Caller ID service where it looks up businesses with that number, like a reverse Yellow Pages, I'm guessing Apple does the same thing[/QUOTE]
Article image is an iphone
An SMS can be sent with a custom 'from' feild to use a string instead of the phone number
that's pretty fucked up that someone thought this was a good idea
[QUOTE=Scratch.;46643517]Article image is an iphone
An SMS can be sent with a custom 'from' feild to use a string instead of the phone number[/QUOTE]
Which leads to this kind of crap. I'm now wondering why it isn't used by scammers, since here for example it's pretty common to receive a SMS with something like "hey its me from someone elses phone, I ran into trouble and I need money, send some to -phone number-".
[QUOTE=damnatus;46643343]Wait how the hell can you name your message's sender? I thought they were plain numbers unless marked in your phonebook[/QUOTE]
Its a feature of SMS, you can set the name to anything. Like I received a hospital appointment reminder a few weeks ago and it had the name of the department. Its useful but also so easy to abuse.
[editline]5th December 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=damnatus;46644392]Which leads to this kind of crap. I'm now wondering why it isn't used by scammers, since here for example it's pretty common to receive a SMS with something like "hey its me from someone elses phone, I ran into trouble and I need money, send some to -phone number-".[/QUOTE]
I am sure I read a while ago that it was being used by scammers.
Anything and everything that can, has, or will exist, will be offensive to someone.
[QUOTE=Megadave;46647963]Anything and everything that can, has, or will exist, will be offensive to someone.[/QUOTE]
I think the problem is that it's identity theft, not that it's offensive.
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