ACMA has put three telcos on notice after they allowed scam messages to be sent to customers.
The watchdog found Sinch Australia and Infobip Information Technology allowed SMS’ to be sent using text-based sender IDs without proper measures to ensure they were legitimate.
If they are found to breach compliance orders, they could face fines of a quarter of a million dollars.
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