We study the absorption and scattering of massless scalar waves by Frolov black holes, a regular deformation of the Reissner-Nordström geometry. A null-geodesic analysis provides the photon-sphere radius and the critical impact parameters governing capture and glory scattering. Using a partial-wave approach, we compute total/partial absorption cross sections and differential scattering cross sections over a broad frequency range. When the absorption spectrum is rescaled by photon-sphere scales, the high-frequency oscillations exhibit a pronounced data collapse in the variables $\widehat{\sigma }={\sigma }_{\mathrm{abs}}/{\sigma }_{\mathrm{geo}}$ and $x=\omega /{\mathrm{\Omega }}_c$, highlighting photon-sphere control of the absorption fine structure. We clarify the parameter dependence under the horizon-radius normalization and relate the apparent trends to the variation of the dimensionless mass across parameter space. Finally, comparing Frolov, Reissner-Nordström, and Hayward black holes with matched critical or glory impact parameters, we find that their absorption and scattering patterns can become remarkably close, indicating that in the intermediate-to-high frequency regime the dominant signatures are largely governed by the unstable photon orbit, while core effects enter as subleading corrections.

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