For everyone’s attention, the MMDA has reiterated that the NCAP or No-Contact Apprehension Policy remains suspended. As it’s already made the rounds, many citizens have received dubious text messages – as in the image above – asking them to click on a link lest their licenses be suspended, among others. This is a blatant scam and should not be entertained, nor the link be clicked.
MMDA NCAP is still suspended, SMS blast being investigated
Photo: Metro Manila Development Authority
Dubious text messages have apparently been sent out, with this author being a recipient of one such message, sometime last week indicating that the mobile number holder has been tagged in the No-Contact Apprehension Policy and that he or she must click on the link or face different consequences. In this case, a License suspension was being used as a reason for the number-holder to comply.
The tagging can either be via the “No-Contact Apprehension” or, more hilariously, audaciously, the “No-Touch Arrest”.
Photo: Department of Information and Communications Technology
As it stands, both the Metro Manila Development Authority as well as the Department of Information and Communications Technology or DICT have already expressed for the public to be weary of such messages and to never click on any links sent via SMS as this can lead to information inadvertently being given to unscrupulous individuals behind the scam/phishing attack.
For their part, citizens can report such incidents to the Metro Manila Development Authority through their 136 Hotline or official social media accounts or call the 1326 Hotline of the the Inter-Agency Response Center being handled by the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center, an attached agency of the DICT.
Photo: Department of Information and Communications Technology
This may seem very trivial but many still do fall for such scams and schemes, and to share information confirming such things to be hoaxes and scams is just part of what we do to serve you, our dear readers.
Be smart, be safe, don’t simply click on links that you get via messaging apps, learn to verify, and simply if in doubt, don’t click on it. If anything, at least the MMDA NCAP has just confirmed (yet again) that the NCAP is still suspended, and that the government is already looking into these malicious attacks on the motoring public.
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