Sunday, November 22, 2009

SMS Spoofing

SMS Spoofing has both legitimate uses (setting the company name from which the message is being sent, setting your own mobile number, or a product name) and illegitimate uses (such as impersonating another person, company, and product).These errors are caused by the spoofed subscriber identities. SMS Spoofing occurs when a sender manipulates address information’s spoofing is a relatively new technology which uses the short message service (SMS), available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by replacing the originating mobile number (Sender ID) with alphanumeric text.

Often sms spoofing done in order to impersonate a user that has roamed onto a foreign network and is submitting messages to the home network. An SMS Spoofing attack is often first detected by an increase in the number of SMS errors encountered during a bill-run.

Frequently, these messages are addressed to destinations outside the home network – with the home SMSC essentially being “hijacked” to send messages into other networks. Operators can respond by blocking different source addresses in their Gateway-MSCs, but fraudsters can change addresses easily to by-pass these measures.



Here are some SMS spoofing services that you can use for free:



  1. smsspoofing.co.cc
  2. Fakemytext.com
  3. Hoaxmail.co.uk
  4. thesmszone.com
  5. smsspoofing.com