Security News > 2023 > April > Vietnam threatens to cut off two million mobile subscribers

Almost two million mobile phone subscribers in Vietnam are at risk of having their services severed, thanks to a new government policy that seeks to curb spam.

Of 127 million mobile phones in use in Vietnam, 96 percent connect to three mobile operators: Vinaphone, Viettel and MobiFone.

Information posted by the Ministry of Information and Communication states that a large number of mobile subscribers have more than one SIM card or rarely use the SIM cards they have bought.

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Cyber security firm Group-IB said last summer it discovered large-scale online scams emanating from Vietnam.

Those efforts impersonated 27 organizations, including banks, and accrued 7,800 victims, partly by using SMS. Vietnam is not the only South East Asian country trying to rein in scams by securing a fixed identity to a mobile number.

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