Could the text message be a fake photo?

From a technical point of view, forging text messages is nothing more than changing your own number to someone else's.

Let others misunderstand!

This is technically possible,

Because we usually send text messages from mobile phones to mobile phones, and network information attaches the sender's information to the text messages!

The perpetrator can invade the network server and modify this rule to make the information out of order, so that other people's numbers will be displayed or their own numbers will be hidden.

The latter (hidden number) function is already the function of some mobile phones!

In other words, if the network operator is willing, or hackers invade, modify the data and forge it!

It's like sending a letter with a fake address, no problem!