Pangilinan-led PLDT Inc. and its wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. over the weekend said they blocked over 5 million scam and spam text messages and over 38,000 mobile numbers involved in fraudulent activities in February.
PLDT said its Cyber Security Operations Group also stopped more than 1.4 billion attempts to open malicious domains in February, including 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. “Our customers are our top priority so we do our best to ensure that they are protected from scammers and fraudsters,” Chief Information Security officer Anton Bonifacio said in a separate statement.”
The latest data available from the Department of Information and Communications Technology show that only 32.01% of all SIMs across the country have been registered as of March 29, 2023.
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