Criticisms on the supposed failure of the SIM (subscriber identity module) card registration law to put a stop to cybercrime are rather harsh. The fact is that the number of text scams has declined since it finally took effect in July. As Secretary Ivan Uy of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) noted in a recent briefing in Malacañang: 'I averaged about six or seven text message scams per day. Today, I probably get one in two or three days. So it is still there, but it is less.

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