To complement this, the National Crime Prevention Council will also launch a WhatsApp channel by the third quarter of this year to source information on scam websites from the public.that targeted OCBC Bank customers recently.
Mrs Teo, who is also Minister-in-Charge of Smart Nation and Cyber security, was delivering one of three ministerial statements addressing the Government's approach to fight scams, in response to 39 questions parliamentary questions filed on the matter. This caused the scam texts to be grouped together with legitimate SMSes from the bank, which many victims said led them to think the fake messages were genuine.
So, using AI to help detect and block such sites, as well as having the new WhatsApp scam channel, could help the Government strengthen its ability to tackle scam sites and be more responsive.Another important measure to upset scammers' plans is to block suspected calls made by them, mostly from abroad, that try to trick victims by scaring them.
This is on top of existing measures - since April 2020, telcos have added a"+" prefix to all incoming overseas calls to help the public identify potential scam calls from overseas that may spoof local numbers to appear more legitimate. To help the police with investigations when a scam occurs, all organisations that send SMSes using registered names here must also have a valid UEN, a standard identification number that uniquely identifies an entity.
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