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Apple’s Messages icon Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Tuesday that police have directed Apple and Google to block scammers from impersonating government agencies on their messaging platforms. The directive, issued under the Online Criminal Harms Act, follows a rise in fraud cases on Apple’s iMessage and Google Messages where scammers posed as official entities, including SingPost, the national postal service. Reuters: ‎ While government agencies have registered with a local SMS registry so only they can send messages with the “gov.sg” name, this does not currently apply to the iMessage and Google Messages platforms. “Members of the public may assume that messages they receive from accounts claiming to be from ‘gov.sg’ on iMessage or Google Messages are legitimate…

Apple’s Messages icon Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Tuesday that police have directed Apple and Google to block scammers from impersonating government agencies on their messaging platforms. The directive, issued under the Online Criminal Harms Act, follows a rise in fraud cases on Apple’s iMessage and Google Messages where scammers posed as official entities, including SingPost, the national postal service. Reuters: ‎ While government agencies have registered with a local SMS registry so only they can send messages with the “gov.sg” name, this does not currently apply to the iMessage and Google Messages platforms. “Members of the public may assume that messages they receive from accounts claiming to be from ‘gov.sg’ on iMessage or Google Messages are legitimate…

Singapore has ordered Apple to block or filter messages on iMessage that impersonate government agencies, requiring the company to implement new anti-spoofing protections by December as part of efforts to curb rising online scams, the Straits Times reports. Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that it had issued an Implementation Directive to Apple under the Online Criminal Harms Act, instructing the company to prevent iMessage accounts and group chats from using names that mimic Singapore government agencies or the "gov.sg" sender ID. The directive also applies to Google Messages, with both companies required to comply by November 30. MHA said the order was necessary because iMessage does not currently support the safeguards built into Singapore's registered SMS sender ID…

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