Consumers face confusion during early days on new ComReg scheme
New anti-fraud system is labelling hospital texts and other legitimate messages as ‘likely scam’
Ireland’s new crackdown on scam texts is labelling real texts as fraudulent – leading to confusion over hospital appointments, digital verification codes and sports tickets.
Patients of St James’s Hospital in Dublin are seeing “likely scam” on appointment texts from the institution, despite the hospital being signed up on a new verified register with the telecoms operator, ComReg.
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