PLDT-Smart blocks over 5 million text scams in Feb

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PLDT Inc. and its wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. said they blocked over 5 million scam and spam text messages in February.

Smart continues the fight vs scammersThe Pangilinan-led firm in the press release sent to team GIZGUIDE said it also blocked over 38,000 mobile numbers possibly linked to fraudulent activities in February. Meanwhile, the Cyber Security Operations Group also stopped over 1.4 billion attempts to open malicious links. This includes 200,000 sites and content related to online sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

We work closely with SMS aggregators and financial institutions to immediately prevent text scams from spreading to mobile users in the country, he added. Meanwhile, Ayala's Globe Telecom Inc. reported that it blocked a record-high of 2.72 billion scam and spam texts in 2022. This is more than double the 1.15 billion recorded in 2021.

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