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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Voicemail without a call
Date: 28 Mar 2025 16:33:16 GMT
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Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
> On 2025-03-28, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> > VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> > [...]
> >> However, I tend to distrust texts since most do not identify the caller.
> >> I see "24530" as the caller.  What the fuck is that?  Personal callers
> >> usually show their phone number, so there's a match up to my Contacts
> >> list, but stupidly all those 2FA codes sent by a web site do NOT
> >> identify the web site sent them, and 2FA mining is a problem.  Maybe I
> >> just did something, like renew a prescription at my pharmacy's web site,
> >> so a text from some garbage numbered sender that says it is from my
> >> pharmacy that arrives within 2 minutes of my action at their web site
> >> provides context for the text.  However, context is not the same as
> >> identification.  
> >
> >   Hmm? Strange! Not that I get that many SMS messages for 2SV or
> > information, but the ones I get, always have a 'name' - for example an
> > airline - or a telephone number.
> >
> >   Perhaps this no-name problem is US-specific? (I am in The
> > Netherlands.)
> 
> My experience is same as yours - I always get a number - or if contacts 
> the name). I'm in UK.

  But, as implied, I also get names for some/most organizations which
are not in my Contacts on the phone. For example an airline (KLM) and
many, many others.

  Of course many of those may be in *a* contact list (mainly in the
(Mozilla Thunderbird) address book on my laptop), but in not the one on
my phone. Anyway, the other contact list is a email contact list,
without phone numbers.

  So these senders have ways to send their name instead of their number.

> >   But indeed, also for our pharmacy, it's a number, but it's always the
> > same number, so no problem. If I could be bothered, I could put the
> > number in my Contacts list. Problem solved.
> >
> > [...]