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by hedora 1542 days ago
Simple solution: The fine is payable, link by link, to the next person in the chain by the party that forwarded the message.

So the phone company can pay the subscriber the $10,000, and collect it from whoever they got the text from.

I guarantee you spoofing would be solved immediately if this change to the law was scheduled for 12 months from now.