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The figure represents a striking 226.22% increase from 17,851 during the equivalent period last year, Globe said.

Local telcos Globe Telecom and Smart Communications said they will comply with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)’s directive to block or deactivate URLs in text messages.

Sen. Grace Poe expressed disappointment over the National Telecommunications Commission's (NTC) seeming slack in taking action against the proliferation of text scams victimizing millions of mobile phone users.

One in every four malicious spam emails worldwide targeted Asia Pacific users in 2022, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.

In the past, the name of the person is seen as an added measure of convenience and helps verify that the recipient is correct.

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) said the result of its initial investigation showed that the recent wave of targeted smishing messages that contain the recipient’s name most likely came from smartphones and not from an app used by data aggregators.

Smart Communications has cited a report from the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) suggesting that the personalized spam text messages proliferating recently could be the handiwork of scammers who mined subscriber data from GCash and Viber.

PLDT-owned mobile operator Smart Communications said it has blocked Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) or clickable links usually found in spam text messages.

The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to establish the ?No Calls, No Text? registration system and penalize its violators.

Globe Telecom said it has deactivated 14,013 SIMs, which have been found to be the sources of unwanted and unsolicited text messages.