Major Crackdown on Mobile Fraud in Brazil: Carriers Forced to Restrict SMS Broadcast Services
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Man with cell phone in hand in the central region of São Paulo Celso Tavares/g1 The federal government has published new rules to combat scams and scams by SMS. The measures include the creation of a public register to identify the companies responsible for sending messages and blocking SMS sent by short unregistered codes. (see other rules. ) These codes are the numbers of few digits that appear as senders of messages, such as "29222," instead …
Major crackdown on mobile fraud in Brazil: carriers forced to restrict SMS broadcast services
Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency, Anatel, has introduced mandatory regulations for mobile carriers to combat SMS-based fraud. The ruling was published in the official government gazette, Diário Oficial da União, on November 4, 2026. The core of the new framework is the establishment of a unified industry registry for short codes with public access. This registry will allow the identification of legal entities sending Application-to-Pe…
This week, the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has established new rules for the sending of automated text messages in Brazil. Published in the Official Journal of the Union on Wednesday (04/11), the measure seeks to hinder SMS hits and increase consumer safety, requiring companies and institutions to adopt exclusive identifiers and provide information on senders in a public register. The determinations cover SMS of the type A2P (App…
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has published new rules for automated sending of SMS to customers. To avoid fraud and increase security, all participating companies will need to register and publicly make available the number used for contact. The change affects A2P type SMS (from one application to one person), i.e. text messages used by companies and institutions. Normally, these communications are represented by short five-dig…
Operators will have up to 90 days to implement some of the security obligations in SMS.
The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has published in the Official Journal of the Union (DOU) new rules to increase the safety of mobile phone users and to make it difficult to use text messages (SMS) to make it difficult to use taps. With the rules, mobile phone operators are forced to block messages originating from unregistered codes. Each... Read more » The post Anatel publishes new rules to prevent fraud via SMS appeared first in…
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