NTT DOCOMO announced on January 13 that it will provide a "dangerous SMS refusal setting" to automatically reject SMS containing dangerous URLs.In principle, you do not need to apply and use it for free.
Installing unauthorized apps, automatically refusing fishing SMS to guide to fake sites to steal personal information, fraudulent phone numbers.
In the judgment of fishing SMS, information obtained in collaboration with public institutions such as the National Police Agency and the Japan Cyber Crime Countermeasures Center, as well as the original information collected by docomo by declaration from users and companies.
According to the Fishing Council, the number of phishing scams has been slightly decreasing, but in December 2021, it increased to 63,159, and the situation continued to be unpredictable.According to the National Police Agency, the amount of fraudulent transfer criminals that abused Internet banking was about 4 in the first half of 2021..The main method is to use SMS and emails to fake sites such as financial institutions as the main tricks.
Danger SMS refusal settings will be a free service that will be automatically applied without application, except for some users.With the provision of a rejection function, the idea is to prevent damage and deterioration of damage.
At the start of the provision of this function, the user who has set "SMS batch refusal" or "Individual number receipt" in the SMS refusal setting is not automatically applied, and the conventional setting contents are maintained.If you do not wish to set a dangerous SMS refusal, opt -out is also possible.
