Re: Voicemail without a call

On 2025-03-28 11:53, Frank Slootweg wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
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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.)

Yes. In USA and Canada, the phone line gets a name for the caller, sent somehow dynamically from the calling phone. On land lines at least. There is a service to define what name you want to send when making a phone call.
In Europe, you only get a name if you write it yourself in your local contact list.
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Cheers, Carlos.