China News Service, Shijiazhuang, May 9 (Zhao Danmei) The Hebei Provincial Public Security Department confirmed on the 9th that in order to protect the property safety of the people, in accordance with the requirements of Hebei Province's work on cracking down on new types of illegal and criminal telecommunication networks, the Hebei Provincial Public Security Department cooperated with Hebei Telecom and Hebei Mobile. , Hebei Unicom's three major local operators announced that from 0:00 on May 5, 2022, the "international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS service" reception function for all users will be disabled by default.

  In recent years, fraud cases caused by overseas fraudulent text messages have occurred frequently, causing huge property losses to the people.

The announcement shows that Hebei Telecom, Hebei Mobile, and Hebei Unicom will change the function of international and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS receiving services to be activated upon user application from 0:00 on May 5, 2022. The function will be changed to off by default.

  The announcement reminds that if users have international and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS requirements, they can take the initiative to apply for international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS functions through SMS, customer service hotline, online or local business halls and other channels from 0:00 on May 5, 2022.

  According to the reporter's review, in order to prevent telecommunications fraud, Jiangxi, Henan, Liaoning and other places have closed international, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan SMS receiving services.

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