Comment by mortenjorck
5 years ago
The entire premise of the spam-reporting feature seems misguided given the prevalence of number spoofing among scammers.
5 years ago
The entire premise of the spam-reporting feature seems misguided given the prevalence of number spoofing among scammers.
This is iMessage. You have to prove you own a phone number to send iMessages from it.
I wonder if the same flow applies to text messages, since as I understand it - they're all integrated.
The thing I'm thinking of it:
1. Find the number of $AppleEmployee
2. Spoof a text message from $AppleEmployee to yourself.
3. Report that as spam.
Would 3 even work, and if so - would it have any impact on that employee's Apple account.
Don't even spoof - just text them a "hey Bob, really sorry to hear that your mother got cancer - please let me know if there's anything I can do to help the family - I'm in the area tomorrow". Chances of a "sorry, wrong number" response are fairly high. Report that as spam and it will have all the legit traffic flow on it.
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