Re: Faking a sender Number

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Dear Stefan,

I had came across SMS where the sender appeared as 'Cilipadi', in text and
not in number. It can be done if you own your SMSC? I am not very sure :)

Cheers,
Earnpin Lee



----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Schoeman" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: Faking a sender Number


> Hi Guys,
>
> Just wanted to get people's opinions on this.
> How easy is it to fake the sender ID on an SMS message?
> i.e to send an SMS which appears to be coming from a phone other than
one's
> own ?
> I ask this not because I want to do it, but to assess to what extent one
can
> trust the
> sender on a received SMS to truly report the number of the phone that it
> came from.
>
> Looking forward to a GSM guru's response on this.
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
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