{"id":976554,"date":"2025-11-26T07:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976554"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:07:34","slug":"singapore-orders-apple-google-to-curb-govt-impersonation-scam-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/26\/singapore-orders-apple-google-to-curb-govt-impersonation-scam-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore orders Apple, Google to curb govt impersonation scam messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: Singapore Police has ordered Apple and Google to take steps to prevent government impersonation scam messages on iMessage and Google Messages.<\/p>\n<p>These measures are aimed at preventing &#8220;spoofing&#8221;, a technique cybercriminals use to disguise themselves as a known or trusted source, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in a press release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The mandated measures include preventing accounts and group chats from displaying names that spoof &#8220;gov.sg&#8221; or government agencies, or filtering messages from accounts and group chats with such names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore: Singapore Police has ordered Apple and Google to take steps to prevent government impersonation scam messages on iMessage and Google Messages. These measures are aimed at preventing &#8220;spoofing&#8221;, a technique cybercriminals use to disguise themselves as a known or trusted source, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in a press release on Tuesday. The mandated measures include preventing accounts and group chats from displaying names that spoof &#8220;gov.sg&#8221; or government agencies, or filtering messages from accounts and group chats with such names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}