Over one billion telco scams have been blocked in the last year as a result industry rules to disrupt scam activity - including over 256 million scam calls and 85 million scam texts in the last quarter alone. New data released by the Australia Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today demonstrates that the Reducing Scam Calls and Scam SMS industry code is effective at reducing the ability of insidious scammers being able to target vulnerable Australians. The Code requires SMS service providers to identify, trace and block suspected SMS scams, and to conduct checks on organisations using text-based sender IDs.

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