on Saturday i recieved a text message, it was a joke about a deceased celebrity when i finished scrolling down the message the Sender was my E-mail Address??

how can this be i didn't send it to my phone??

Was it Richard Whitely?

Yes it was Richard Whiteley

did you get one???

No sorry just having a guess.

But I have had something come to me at random before, I think that unscrupulous spam companies can sometimes send messages to random mobile phone numbers.

Maybe it was one of your friends sent it to you by mistake and they have you in their phone book on their mobile phone along with your e-mail address and it somehow showed up at that?

You can spoof the from part of a text message like you can with emails. Not sure how but I have seen it done before. Likely that someone pinched your number from a list that had emails and mobile numbers.

why would they send it to the person they are spoofing? lol seems a bit mad
like they want to be found out

There is a dedicated Open Source tool – “SMS spoof”. It is a PalmOS application that allows you to send spoofed SMS messages. It uses a dialup connection to an EMI/UCP-compatible SMSC. It can be used with a modem connected to the Palm, such as an IR link to a GSM phone with a built-in modem. SMS spoof has been tested with Telenor's SMSC in Norway, but it should work with any SMSC that supports the EMI/UCP protocol, as long as no authentication is required.

Lotus Domino is also capable I believe.

Originally posted by melthebell
why would they send it to the person they are spoofing? lol seems a bit mad
like they want to be found out

I don't know really, just to confuse people I guess?

Originally posted by J-Blaze
There is a dedicated Open Source tool – “SMS spoof”. It is a PalmOS application that allows you to send spoofed SMS messages. It uses a dialup connection to an EMI/UCP-compatible SMSC. It can be used with a modem connected to the Palm, such as an IR link to a GSM phone with a built-in modem. SMS spoof has been tested with Telenor's SMSC in Norway, but it should work with any SMSC that supports the EMI/UCP protocol, as long as no authentication is required.

Lotus Domino is also capable I believe.

can someone please translate this into english for me as i dont understand any of it

cheers

Originally posted by J-Blaze
There is a dedicated Open Source tool – “SMS spoof”. It is a PalmOS application that allows you to send spoofed SMS messages. It uses a dialup connection to an EMI/UCP-compatible SMSC. It can be used with a modem connected to the Palm, such as an IR link to a GSM phone with a built-in modem. SMS spoof has been tested with Telenor's SMSC in Norway, but it should work with any SMSC that supports the EMI/UCP protocol, as long as no authentication is required.

Lotus Domino is also capable I believe.

I wish I could speak a second language, J-Blaze;)

Originally posted by Gingerbarf
can someone please translate this into english for me as i dont understand any of it

cheers

"Yes, there are ways of sending a text message pretending to be from somewhere else."

:)