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		newman8r on March 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My own phone number is now spam texting me For a long time, you could get into any voicemail account by spoof calling that phone number to itself - most of the time they weren't password protected.

hedora on March 29, 2022 [–]

There is / was a similar gmail security vulnerability, where emails "from" you went into your sent box.

This was supposedly used to forge harassing emails from work accounts, which provided proof of false accusations.

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