Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Android will detect calls with spoofed numbers by sending a real-time RCS message to the legitimate owner Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:29:05 +0100 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <08onfmxrah.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1s2tfmxual.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net VFZ9apWAkRxlP9Q6TZWjBALeQbaPcySIUb4ROdCNZ/eAK77RoV Cancel-Lock: sha1:awQ9OndFeqqCx1AU3xjfT4HCIS8= sha256:3qn8BG9Wjm7ety7wD9y4wE2aXJ6L1Ot4MWtAmxH86Fs= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:154146 VanguardLH wrote: > Isn't this whole RCS scheme to validate the Caller ID which is what is > getting spoofed? The caller isn't being spoofed. It's the CID they > send that could be spoofed. Apparently the scammers *are* faking the voice as well as the caller ID. So you get a call from an AI version of your relative, saying they've been robbed while on holiday, asking if could you send them some money so they can get home again ... enough people fall for this when it's just faked email/text.