I disagree that so many things in tech need to be intentional spoonerisms.
It's still "phishing" to me no matter what the medium.
Smishing
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Re: Smishing
#32To the puzzled: 'Smishing' = 'SMS' ∩ 'phishing' > Signs that you are getting "Smished": [...] when you receive a message from bigger service providers, (f.e. banks, post offices, or delivery services) they will mostly have their company names displayed instead of their numbers The formulation in the article may lead to a very bad advice: in some areas, scammers do display a "company name", regularly. So: a numeric se…
I always wondered how that worked. How does Apple knows to display a company name instead of the "small numbers that are not actual phone numbers" (IIRC they are called Large Accounts)?
Nothing to do with Apple or software. The GSM protocol and upwards support alphanumeric SMS originators.