Increasing number of cases where 'spam messages are sent from your phone number'

Short Message Service (SMS) , which allows you to send and receive text messages using a phone number, is used for small message exchanges and two-step verification, but sometimes spam messages are sent to SMS. Some SMS spam disguise the sender as a carrier or courier, but overseas media The Verge says, 'The number of cases where spam messages are sent from your own phone number is increasing.' I reported.

My own phone number is now spam texting me --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/28/22999719/spam-texts-own-phone-number-verizon-att-tmobile

One day, The Verge's editor, Chris Welch , received an SMS saying, 'I'll give you a little gift instead of paying the phone bill.' This is a typical spam message, which would normally have been deleted immediately and ended, but Welch was surprised that the spam message was sent from 'my phone number'. rice field. When I actually tapped the sender, it moved to my contact card properly.

Welch had previously received spam disguised as a formal vendor, but this was the first time he had received spam from his own phone number. I tried searching for ' spam own number ' on Twitter and found that many people were experiencing similar situations, as well as those who received similar spam from their colleagues at The Verge. It seems that there was. In addition, Mr. Welch uses Verizon as a communication carrier, but similar spam damage has been confirmed with other communication carriers.

Never before today have I gotten a spoofed / spam text from my own phone number. Pic.twitter.com/t7fjSvppRA

— Chris Hartley (@chris_hartley) March 27, 2022

So many technological failures involved in letting someone spam people by spoofing their own number while the phone's OS thinks that maybe, just maybe, it was actually me texting myself but it can't be sure. Pic.twitter.com/J5rbZ41BB9

— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) March 29, 2022

The phone carriers had a literal monopoly over human communication for decades and in 2022 this is what their systems have come to facilitating: SMS spam that's “sent” from my own phone number.

— Tom cook (@ywxwy) March 29, 2022

A similar case has also been reported on the overseas bulletin board Reddit.

SPAM text from my own number!: Visible
https://www.reddit.com/r/Visible/comments/tpqhv3/spam_text_from_my_own_number/

When spam comes from your phone number, you may be worried, 'Maybe your phone number has been hacked?', But Welch said, 'Spammers are on any phone. It's easy to camouflage a number, 'he said, saying he doesn't have to panic because the phone number isn't hacked. However, Welch points out that by disguising the sender as the same phone number as the recipient, it successfully circumvents the 'filtering unknown messages' feature.

In addition, when Mr. Welch clicked the link sent via SMS, he was redirected to channel 1 , which is the national broadcast of Russia.