I have an iPhone 6. Contacts have been receiving text messages from my number that I didn’t send. How could this happen and what should I do to stop it?
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Someone is most likely spoofing your number and making it appear as though you sent it. It’s frightening how easy it is to do. There have even been cases where people have hacked into a person’s account even with 2FA enabled because they receive the authorization code as though it was you.
Cellular providers are trying to come up with a more secure messaging system to replace SMS. iMessage is more secure. One way they could tell if it was really you would be if they also use iMessage as it uses end-to-end encryption’s and if they receive a message from you it would be blue and not green.
Someone is most likely spoofing your number and making it appear as though you sent it. It’s frightening how easy it is to do. There have even been cases where people have hacked into a person’s account even with 2FA enabled because they receive the authorization code as though it was you.
Cellular providers are trying to come up with a more secure messaging system to replace SMS. iMessage is more secure. One way they could tell if it was really you would be if they also use iMessage as it uses end-to-end encryption’s and if they receive a message from you it would be blue and not green.
One message was to a Samsung phone, but the message this morning was sent by iMessage. Is there anything I can do to stop this? Will changing my Apple ID or password help?
There is no such app as iMessage, do you mean Messages?
Not a separate app. I meant when one iPhone sends a text to another.
Correctly functioning iPhones do not send texts to each other, they send iMessages from Messages.
Friends receiving text messages I didn’t send?
