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About 2,000 organisations have registered with a government central registry designed to help users identify scam messages on their phone. Companies that are not part of the white list set up by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) will

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A Google spokesman said in reply to queries from The Straits Times that the measure will help users to avoid scam messages.The spokesman said: “Spoofing of sender IDs is a common phishing method by scammers, and is also one of Singaporeans’ top-searched cyber-security topics in 2022.”A RedOne spokesman said: “The labelling of ‘likely scam’ from the sender is straightforward, and recipients will be more likely to be wary before taking any further action.

After the registry was set up in March 2022, the Republic saw a 64 per cent reduction in scams through SMS from the last quarter of 2021 to the second quarter of 2022, said IMDA. Currently, organisations register their protected sender IDs but scammers are still able to use lookalike IDs that are not registered.

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