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  2. Short Message Service technical realisation (GSM) - Wikipedia

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    Call flow for the mobile terminated Short Message Service. The figure to the right depicts a call flow for mobile-terminated Short Message delivery. [1] For the sake of simplicity, some of the interactions between the VMSC and VLR, and VMSC and Handset, have been omitted, and only the case when SMS home routing is not in use is shown.

  3. Caller ID spoofing - Wikipedia

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    Caller ID spoofing. Caller ID spoofing is a spoofing attack which causes the telephone network's Caller ID to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is a station other than the true originating station. This can lead to a display showing a phone number different from that of the telephone from which the call was placed.

  4. SMS spoofing - Wikipedia

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    SMS spoofing. 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 ...

  5. BBB Scam Alert: Emergency scams instill fear via fake texts ...

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    Contact the BBB at 800-552-4631 or visit www.bbb.org. This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Consumer Advocate: Tips for spotting an emergency scam. You receive a phone call ...

  6. Fictitious telephone number - Wikipedia

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    The song tells the story of a man who decides to call all the women in his phonebook from a public phone. The song was in 11th place among the best Brazilian songs of 1997. [ 14 ] Since the release of the song, several owners of the number 234-5678, mentioned in the chorus of the song, have frequently received several prank calls. [ 15 ]

  7. Phishing - Wikipedia

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    SMS phishing [31] or smishing [32] [33] is a type of phishing attack that uses text messages from a cell phone or smartphone to deliver a bait message. [34] The victim is usually asked to click a link, call a phone number, or contact an email address provided by the attacker.

  8. Voice phishing - Wikipedia

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    Voice phishing, or vishing, [ 1] is the use of telephony (often Voice over IP telephony) to conduct phishing attacks. Landline telephone services have traditionally been trustworthy; terminated in physical locations known to the telephone company, and associated with a bill-payer. Now however, vishing fraudsters often use modern Voice over IP ...

  9. Beshear calls Vance ‘phony’ and ‘fake’ after comments about ...

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    Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) called Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) a “phony” and a “fake” after the GOP vice presidential nominee criticized Democrats — in particular, Vice President Harris ...