
Palace reminds SIM users to register
Malacañang reiterates its call for prepaid users of SIM cards to register.
Malacañang reiterates its call for prepaid users of SIM cards to register.
House Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Rep. Arlene Brosas is not convinced that the SIM registration bill will end the proliferation of text scams.
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte lauded the swift House passage of the SIM card registration bill in a bid to safeguard cellphone users from criminal activities.
The government is working with international law enforcement counterparts to crack down on syndicates behind text scams in the country.
International syndicates could be behind the personalized text scams enticing recipients to apply for bogus jobs or play games, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) said.
Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. called on the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to be more proactive in stopping text scams as culprits get creative in baiting cellphone users.
Senator Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr. asked the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to act on the rising incidents of spam and phishing text messages.
Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday urged her colleagues in the 19th Congress to pass the SIM Card Registration Bill, which was earlier vetoed by President Rodrigo Duterte due to its social media provision, to effectively thwart text scams.
Representatives of Bayan Muna party-list have jointly filed a resolution seeking congressional investigation on the proliferation of text scams and spams in the country.