The extension of the SIM card registration last April would serve as the “last chance” for scammers to register numbers and come up with new methods, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy said.
During a media briefing in Malacañang, the official lamented how scammers used the SIM card registration extension to produce new ways to hoodwink consumers.
He acknowledged that text scams are again proliferating, although “most of them now redirected, reprogram their approach.” But once consumers clicked on these “fake” sites, the scammers would “capture your personal data which you key in into those sites.”“Once you register, your SIM card everything is still the same and you’re still registered to your e-wallets. We are hoping that our kababayans would register quickly and so that we can cut this method, this avenue of defrauding our kababayans by using the SIM card,” the official added.
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