okvrdz t1_j6i0ivw wrote on January 30, 2023 at 1:59 PM

Reply to comment by Greggers42 in FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls by BasedSweet

Granted that the email spoof is true, crank100 was asking about the tracing of the CEO’s number. Which is what the previous user mentioned as tracing it back to Twilio. That question remains unanswered AFAIK.

Greggers42 t1_j6i6ew5 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 2:44 PM

Most companies don’t hand out CEO’s cellphone. So a late night text that ID’s itself as your boss and ask for info is not hard and doesn’t require the amount of suggested work earlier post have given regarding changing the caller ID, etc. Not saying that’s what happened, but having seen this done as well, and amaze me people fell for it, I can see this being an option.

okvrdz t1_j6i7m8b wrote on January 30, 2023 at 2:53 PM

Yes those are all clues on how to detect a possible spoof text. Yet, what some of us want to know is how tracing back a spoofed number that displays a valid existing number, results in determining that the text originated from Twilo. How does it make that distinction?

Greggers42 t1_j6i8o3b wrote on January 30, 2023 at 3:00 PM

The poster has corrected it to say there were two numbers. Which seems more sus to me but I’ll give the benefit. Personally, I’ve heard the term spoofed number to apply to any number being used in a spoof attempt. Not necessarily the actual number, so that was where I was going with the forgiveness of the explanation.