> New rules to thwart text message scammers and protect consumers and businesses
I'll need to dig through this properly, but new, if not unexpected, rules from Ofcom for telcos, including:
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To tackle person-to-person messaging scams, under our new rules mobile providers must collect information about scam messages, weblinks and phone number from their customers and from anti-fraud organisations. They must then:
block numbers used by scammers and prevent criminals from sending messages from these numbers.
block scam messages in transit by identifying and blocking scam messages being carried on their networks by detecting malicious weblinks and phone numbers.
Mobile providers must also set volume limits for pay-as-you-go SIM cards. This will make it harder for scammers to message large numbers of potential victims at once.
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