Smart urges customers to double-check URLs before clicking to avoid getting scammed

Submitted by rmcamongol on Thu, 05/23/2024 - 09:00
Smart warns customers to double-check links that are included in unsolicited SMS, even those supposedly coming from the network itself. Smart's legitimate domain is https://www.smart.com.ph and any other iteration is fake.

PLDT, Smart block more than 13 million SMShing messages to combat ‘hijack profile’ incidents

Submitted by rmcamongol on Tue, 04/16/2024 - 15:31

PLDT’s wireless unit, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), has blocked more than 13 million SMShing messages in the first quarter of the year. It has also blacklisted almost 200,000 mobile numbers involved in phishing activities as the Philippine National Police (PNP) raised the alarm on ‘hijack profile’ cases.