According to insiders, one major phone network provider is shamefully lagging behind its peers in the fight against fraudsters — O2. Stop Scams says as many as 99 out of every 100 cases of scam text messages appearing on mobile phones now relate to O2 customers. It adds that the long-awaited technology blocked almost 27 million scam messages within the first three months of 2023. In October 2021, EE launched its own anti-spam filter and has prevented 329 million scam SMS messages from reaching customers. BT-owned network EE has blocked more than 70 million scam calls already, as it filters out international numbers operating as a UK number.

Source: Daily Mail April 25, 2023 22:23 UTC