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In the year to April 2025, Ofcom said 100 million messages were reported to network operators. The communications regulator said half of UK mobile phone users received a suspicious message between November 2024 and February 2025 via text or iMessage. Announcing the planned changes, Ofcom said many phone providers have already taken significant action against scam texts - blocking as many 600 million a year. However, it said the new measures would give phone users further protections. The communications' regulator said scammers had two distinct methods of tricking victims. The first method is person-to-person scams, which involve either pretending to be a family or a friend, often in an emergency situation. The other type are business messaging scams, pretending to be a business such as a delivery service, tricking people into clicking on fake links.
