THE Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) and its wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) on Tuesday said they have blocked more than 100 URLs (uniform resource locators) and domains tied to text scams from June 10 to 28, 2022, bringing the total links blocked to 650 in the first half of 2022.

The Cybersecurity Operations Group (CSOG) said these form part of the malicious text messages that are being sent as they began going after internet links that aim to defraud customers.

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