Singapore directs Apple, Google to prevent government spoofing on messaging platforms

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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.
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