SINGAPORE: If you’ve received a suspicious message – whether it’s on WhatsApp, Telegram or via SMS – you can soon check if it could be a scam. All you have to do is to send a screenshot of it or copy its text into a WhatsApp bot – a new product by the Government’s anti-scam app ScamShield.
SINGAPORE: If you’ve received a suspicious message – whether it’s on WhatsApp, Telegram or via SMS – you can soon check if it could be a scam.
It will be able to take in reports of scam messages in non-English languages, but can only reply to users in English. It was launched on iOS in 2020 and on Android in 2022, and has about 500,000 users. From 2022 to date, the app has blocked 200,000 scam calls and detected more than 3.5 million scam messages.
The cybersecurity operations centre, in collaboration with the Home Affairs Ministry, has developed a new phishing detection tool called PhishMonSGThe tool proactively hunts phishing sites posing as government agency websites, so that they can be removed before members of the public fall prey, said Mrs Teo.Citizen satisfaction with digital government services has risen from 73 per cent in 2016 to 84 per cent last year, Mrs Teo said on Friday.
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