And because this number is not forgeable — in Taiwan, normally when you get a SMS number, it’s 10 digits long; if it’s oversea, it’s even longer — so one can very simply tell by the sender that this comes from a trusted source. This is like a blue check mark. And already, our telecom companies, the banks, and so on, are also shifting to their own short codes.

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