Having read the title, I think I might be having a stroke… Or really need the iced latte this morning…
Nope … still makes no sense
I think monkeys are scamming people by stealing sim cards and activating them with fake IDs. It seems the monkeys are able to get away with this because the IDs appear genuine thanks to the photo. This also falls within a legal loophole as monkeys are generally not subject to law and often fail to appear for their court date anyway so law enforcement isn’t able to effectively combat the issue.
After the crackdown on monkeys stealing from tourists and getting smashed on drinks left on the beach, they’ve had to improvise to survive.
Notkenm
They added face recognition to the SIM registration process, in an attempt to reduce fraud. (Maybe by limiting or not allowing duplicate faces.) But a monkey face works too, and they are plentiful on the islands, supplying many unique faces.
Have you seen doctor who, where an image of a weeping angel can become a weeping angel?
I bet they’re just scanning the barcode… image recognition is way more expensive.
My guess is it’s not really trying to identify the person on the pic, just looking for anything looking like a human face, like any phone camera software would.
With the same pareidolia/non-human faces problems you’d get on those.
My guess is it’s the Philippines. The corporations and gov especially has absolutely no idea how to computer. They add inefficient manual processes to modern tech that is completely automated in all instances.
It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so infuriating. Filipinos deserve better, but it’s a viscous cycle of supporting the most obvious sociopath, that leads to the next sociopath; ad infinitum.
In very mild defence of their government, it’s not like many other countries do IT better at the national level.
I’m from this hellhole country. This gov’t screws over the people over every chance it gets. It deserves no defending.
Well, this is one place where they should have a manual process
Solution to phone scams has nothing to do with sim card issuance. Any restrictions in that regard will only harm legitimate users.
We have to demand companies to strictly verify the incoming caller numbers, like we do with modern day emails. That way, filtering on the receiving side becomes possible.
I often wonder if spam protection would be better if more clearly displayed.
I know DKIM, SPF, DMARC aren’t “friendly names” but we could call them “Sender Valid”, “Email Valid”, “Handshake Accepted” or something and then maybe a “no outside links” and “no suspicious content” — 5 pip marks or green ticks to feel better about it?
Then you could also force-display the domain and page title following links, and warn against mismatching reply-to: addresses. Maybe even show some known technographics from the headers (“Sent via Marketo?”)
All that to say, systems like that would help against spam callers and scammers.
I thought this was the onion for a second…
