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Originally Posted by hazel
The domain name has the suffix .cc. I wonder what that stands for.
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.cc is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Cocos Islands, an Australian territory. (Used to also be marketed as shorthand for Credit Card)
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Originally Posted by hazel
Apparently this was where all the phone scammers who impersonate your bank or Amazon or the police got their software from.
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For text messages spoofing a sender is extremely, extremely easy. Commercial services allow you to set an alphanumeric originator ID very easily, we make use of this fact with one provider at work, and I have a different provider for one of my websites (TenTenths.com) that allows it.
Phones used to be a bit harder, when I was involved with multi-tenant call centers it was very common to set the caller ID depending on the outbound calling the agent was doing.