Soon we will be paying more for digital services, even internet identifier like domain names can be included, and that's a definitive VAT. In PH it's equivalent to 12%. Although, we still have to see invoice for domain names registration and renewal fees being added with VAT. You should be getting reminders from your local and international service providers to key-in your tax details, if you haven't yet done so. We must say, this is especially for those who had to directly acquire digital services with the source and not through local resellers. If you've been dealing with local resellers, your digital services may probably have been subjected with, and had added, VAT included in your payment ever since. You should be, but you have to check it. For online local retailers, you may have been VAT registered and paying your taxes with or without that digital tax. Don't take this as an advice and ascertain it with your accountant to be sure.
Are you getting them or have you started receiving these SMS messages?
These are SMSes that uses names instead of mobile number. They may not be coming from who and where they claim to be. Careful now.
Some may have been getting these for sometime already.
The number of SMS of this sort--called alpha tag, a useful feature of marketing platforms--may have been elevated and they come as if legitimate, coming from service providers including finance and telco both of which are interesting (to marketing and technology people) and worrying (? to regular users or customers).
They sound as if they are really coming from what they claimed to be. Your digital wallet sending you a link to collect your gift? Beware.
These can be stopped when it reaches you. Don't get excited if you are being offered with anything i.e. money, airdrop, rewards etcetera. Just ignore them or if you are a little curious, you may follow, don't click and tap, the link you receive but use the domain name instead, type it manually into your browser, to start understanding who they are really including what their system looked like. And then you can see at lot more from there.
You may ask, why such texts are getting through telco? They may have control over what's passing through their system but that's probably letting them peek and flag at every covered word you're sending and receiving, even if they are using either filtering tool or "*artificial" intelligence to do their work, and even decide, for them.
Report it? There's only the name you can tell or share wherever you'd like your report or complain submitted and not much detail, no phone number, for this to be accommodated effectively.
There must be a way where such messages can be validated quickly and efficiently.
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