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  2. How to identify a fake text message: Online skills 101 - AOL

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    Don't call any phone number in an unsolicited text. Don't scan a QR code in an unsolicited text (that's a new one that scammers are exploiting now.) Those are just the starting points, of course.

  3. Are You Being 'Spoofed'? This Specific Type Of Scam Is Hard ...

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    Phone spoofing can be hard to spot because there are apps that can replicate caller IDs so that they can carry the display name of people you know, as well as the local area codes that you are ...

  4. Racist spoof text messages spam Black Americans in the US ...

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    Install a spam call-blocking or spoofing protection app. File a complaint with the FCC and the FTC. Change your phone number. Consider signing up for identity theft protection. Can spoofing be traced?

  5. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

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    SMS spoofing is a technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text. Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which the message is ...

  6. Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 - Wikipedia

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    On April 6, 2006, Congressmen Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.) introduced H.R. 5126, a bill that would have made caller ID spoofing a crime. Dubbed the "Truth in Caller ID Act of 2006", the bill would have outlawed causing "any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" via "any telecommunications service or IP-enabled ...

  7. Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) - Wikipedia

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    The agency stated that they had received consumer complaints about the calls, and that news outlets had also reported the calls as ongoing. [8] In 2024, the Better Business Bureau published an article stating that consumers have continued to report such calls to the BBB Scam Tracker. The article stated that no consumers reported any monetary ...

  8. How a teenager used a spoof cell tower to steal personal ...

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    A New Zealand teenager sent thousands of scam texts using a fake cellphone tower before he was caught. The tactic is called "smishing." It uses a so-called SMS Blaster to trick cellphones.

  9. STIR/SHAKEN - Wikipedia

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    STIR/SHAKEN, or SHAKEN/STIR, is a suite of protocols and procedures intended to combat caller ID spoofing on public telephone networks.Caller ID spoofing is used by robocallers to mask their identity or to make it appear the call is from a legitimate source, often a nearby phone number with the same area code and exchange, or from well-known agencies like the Internal Revenue Service or ...