Mobile phone users in S’pore to be given option to block overseas calls as part of new anti-scam measures


The move cuts off a key communication tool for fraudsters, as phone calls ranked among the top three methods scammers used to contact victims. — KUA CHEE SIONG/The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: Mobile phone users can soon bar all overseas calls, as part of a new slew of anti-scam measures to come in 2024.

Singapore’s war on scams remains part of the Ministry of Communications and Information’s (MCI) main focus in the new year, said Communications and Information Minister Josephine Teo in an interview with Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao on Dec 18 on MCI’s digital priorities in 2024.

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