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Originally Posted by monophoto
It used to be phone calls and e-mails, but now its SMS messages. And another route for this stuff is messages forwarded within a voice mail system. One of the worst offenders for that approach is AT&T. I've lost track of the number of times I've called AT&T (my wireless provider) to complain about unwanted marketing messages from their Direct TV subsidiary - they promise to make the calls stop, but they keep coming
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The problem with that is usually that there are companys who sell access to the telephone networks to other companys (who then often provide VOIP services & co). some companys have direct access to the network, and they sell this access then. with such an access, you can spoof your telephone number really easy. especially scam callcenters in turkey and india buy access to the telephone network from such companys and then automatic call telephone numbers in germany, america etc. with spoofed telephonenumbers. they use computers who automatically go through each number (0000000, 0000001, 0000002 etc.) till they reach someone. they do the same with sms messages.. often they send millions of messages to each number they can in the hope you call them back and they can scam you then.
so as long the telephone network providers sell access to their networks to such companys, this will not stop. the protocols of the telephone network have so many vulnerabilitys you can abuse as a scammer, that they would need to completly remodell the protocols to fix this issues. but they won't. they are aware about this issues for more than 10 years if not a lot longer.. and still didn't fix it.