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One cool thing that just went live in the last month or so is SMS Sender ID. You need to file a shitton of paperwork before being given the keys to send an SMS to an Australian with a name instead of a phone number.

www.acma.gov.au/sms-sender-id-register

I personally had to write the code to make this work for a rather large financial institution that uses AWS for bulk SMS. It was a lot of hoops to jump through. If you get one detail wrong, your SMS just has a phone number instead of a name.

At this point, it should be impossble to deceptively get “Fedex” into an SMS header.

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One cool thing that just went live in the last month or so is SMS Sender ID. You need to file a shitton of paperwork before being given the keys to send an SMS to an Australian with a name instead of a phone number.

www.acma.gov.au/sms-sender-id-register

I personally had to write the code to make this work for a rather large financial institution that uses AWS for bulk SMS. It was a lot of hoops to jump through. If you get one detail wrong, your SMS just has a phone number instead of a name.

At this point, it should be impossble to get “Fedex” into an SMS header.