SMART alerts customers to savvy scammers, check links carefully

Smart Communications warned customers to double-check links in unsolicited text messages, even those supposedly from the network itself. 

Smart reminds its customers that its legitimate domain is https://www.smart.com.ph and any other iteration is fake. 

Recently, Smart denied owning the domain ‘smart-com-ph’ used in a fake ‘rewards’ text scam. Smart blocked the phishing domain and similarly crafted domain names from its network.

“We remind our customers to carefully inspect URLs before opening them,” Cathy Yang, first vice president and head of corporate communications at PLDT and Smart, said in a statement.  

“Criminals often use spellings very close to legitimate domains to deceive customers into thinking they’re opening official websites,” she added . 

PLDT and Smart have significantly enhanced their efforts to protect customers from scammers, preventing over 16 million scam messages and blacklisting more than 333,000 mobile numbers tied to scams and phishing activities in the first four months of this year.

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