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At the hearing of the Senate public services committee on Wednesday, September 2, Sen. Cynthia Villar expressed exasperation over the lack of effort of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and telecommunications companies to put a stop to the spam text messages sent to subscribers.
“In fact, Villar blasted the NTC for resorting to just blocking the SIM card of the sender of spam test messages,” reports GMA News Online.
Villar stated, “Wala kayong pakialam sa amin, wala kayong pakialam sa publiko dahil kung may pakialam kayo dapat naitigil nyo na yan (You don’t care about us. If you cared about the public then you would have put a stop to it).”
She added: “You are making a lot of money out of us, you might as well protect us.”
Villar then went on to cite the variety of spam text messages that almost every phone subscriber receives: the fake raffle scam, the OFW relative scam, the load stealing scam, and so on.
Wo Rosete, senior manager of the External Relations, Public Affairs Group of Smart Communications, said they have been “actively working to counter the efforts of the text scammers to hoodwink wireless subscribers.”
Meanwhile, Yoly Crisanto, Globe senior vice president for corporate communications, said that they “continue to intensify their campaign to crack down on entities/individuals involved in perpetrating various text scams that victimize Globe customers.”
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