Philippine lawmakers have been left red-faced after an ID card bearing a photo of a 'monkey' was used to breach new SIM card registration rules aimed at combatting rampant text messaging scams.
MANILA : Philippine lawmakers have been left red-faced after an ID card bearing a photo of a"monkey" was used to breach new SIM card registration rules aimed at combatting rampant text messaging scams.
But, rather than stop spam and scam text messages, the telecom regulator told a Senate hearing this week that there had been a"sharp increase". Senator Grace Poe, one of the SIM card law's principal authors, lamented how text scams continued to defraud unsuspecting mobile phone users by offering fake jobs, lottery winnings, loans and"even fake love at times".
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