  We investigate the propagation of massless particles and scalar fields in the
background of Hayward regular black holes. We compute the absorption and
scattering cross sections and compare our numerical results with some
analytical approximations, showing that they are in excellent agreement. We
show that some of the absorption and scattering results of Reissner-Nordstr\"om
black holes can be mimicked by Hayward regular black holes, for appropriate
choices of the charge of the two different black holes.
