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Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada (nationalpost.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46348914

TIL your phone apparently does no or easily spoofed authentication of the identity of the base station it decides to connect to. Anyone know more about this and how it's possible?

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If I have the time I waste those scammers time, it is so rare that I get one of those calls now a days, maybe once every few years.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If they have enough of your voice they can AI it though.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    My number got black listed years ago on many of those scammer lists, the last time I had time to waste on one of those calls, they where calling a cell phone I had for work (Statistics Canada at the time, I sadly no longer work with there) and they where saying something had leaked and they where from the Government of Canada I so wanted to waste their time as I drove across town for a work meeting.

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