SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore’s police have ordered Apple [AAPL.O] and Google [GOOGL.O] to prevent the spoofing of government agencies on their messaging platforms, the home affairs ministry said on Tuesday.

The order under the nation’s Online Criminal Harms Act came after the police observed scams on Apple’s iMessage and Google Messages purporting to be from companies such as the local postal service SingPost.

In September, the government also threatened to impose fines on Meta Platforms [META.O] if it did not introduce measures like facial recognition to help curb impersonation scams on Facebook, including those involving key government office holders.

While government agencies have registered with a local SMS registry so only they can send messages with the “gov.sg” name, this does

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