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Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished (www.troyhunt.com)

submitted 5 hours ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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From 2024, but funny to read....

What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we're all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

One cool thing that just went live in the last month or so is SMS Sender ID. You need to file a shitton of paperwork before being given the keys to send an SMS to an Australian with a name instead of a phone number.

https://www.acma.gov.au/sms-sender-id-register

I personally had to write the code to make this work for a rather large financial institution that uses AWS for bulk SMS. It was a lot of hoops to jump through. If you get one detail wrong, your SMS just has a phone number instead of a name.

At this point, it should be impossble to deceptively get "Fedex" into an SMS header.