Appyshka

There is a serious safety issue with iPhones, which enables “text spoofing.” It is a threat to users’ confidentiality and both virtual and physical safety. While it can be used legitimately, there are a lot of people and companies who would send illegitimate spoofed SMS.

Every mobile user has an experience of SMS spoofing. It can be pretty harmless when you see a name of some trusted company instead of the number: it is much easier to process and filter information in such a way. Still, there are people who use this technology for changing the original number to some other number (but not the name), and, thus, misleading people. In a safe system on one’s smartphone, a receiver will have a feature of seeing an original sender’s number and a changed one (which is seen as a reply-to number), but on the iPhone, people can only see the number for replying, which poses a threat.