Globe is also pushing for the passage of the SIM card registration bill, which is awaiting the signature of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
– Globe Telecom is temporarily blocking all text messages containing website links to stop the recent spread of scam text messages, which have been including people’s names.
“If the SMS has a link of any kind, we are not going to deliver it, period. This is necessary to protect our customers,” Globe chief information security officer Anton Bonifacio said in a statement on Friday, September 30.Globe said they blocked 784 million scam and spam messages from January to July 2022. It added that it also deactivated 14,058 scam-linked mobile numbers and blacklisted 8,973 more in the same period.
GCash, an e-wallet service under Globe, earlier made the move to hide letters from customers’ names to protect them from text scams. “We are taking this measure for the security of our 92 million customers at Globe and 66 million more using GCash as we note how the modus operandi of fraudsters are becoming even more sophisticated. We hope this will make a major dent on various spam and scam SMS rackets,” Bonifacio added.Amid the spate of scam text messages, the National Privacy Commission confirmed that messaging and money apps may have been used to harvest the name associated with a person's number.
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