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Having anti-SMS spoofing registry may not increase banks' liability
Customers' actions still play big part in equation, say lawyers
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Kenny Chee
A new registry that organisations, including banks, can sign up for could help reduce the spoofing of names used for sending SMSes, which happened in recent SMS phishing scams that caused many OCBC Bank customers to lose funds.
Some banks are already on the registry, with OCBC understood to have joined it recently.
