Reply to post: What's worrying...

If NatWest texts you about online banking fraud, don't click the link

Simon Harris

What's worrying...

Is that we've managed to create a phone system where messages can be convincingly enough spoofed that one caller ID can appear to come from a different number.

Is there no way that telephone systems can detect a discrepancy between where a message or call actually comes from and where it says it comes from?

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