New Delhi:
The government has informed that an indigenously developed system to identify and block international fake calls showing Indian mobile numbers has reduced such calls by about 4 lakhs per day.
In addition, the government asked Indian telecom companies to launch a campaign against foreign carriers or aggregators who are handing over fake international calls, and they have blocked more than 20 such carriers so far.
The Department of Telecommunications (DOT) has recently launched an indigenously developed International Income Spoken Call Prevention System in collaboration with all telecom service providers (TSPs).
This device proved to be a malignant obstruction that blocked 90% of all the international calls that were identified as fake calls – about 1.35 crore, in just 24 hours, it shows that cyber using fake calls. -The success of the system in dealing with the issue of crime from abroad.
The fraudsters were previously using international spoof calls to cheat Indian citizens and carry out cyber crime and financial fraud which displayed the Indian mobile number (+91-xxxxx).
Although these calls seem to come from within India, in fact these calling line identity (CLI), usually called a phone number, is made from abroad through manipulation.
With the successful implementation of the system, scamsters abroad changed their ways and now they have started cheating using international numbers.
To compete this, Dot has asked telecom service providers to display “international calls” on all calls coming from outside India.
This helps the citizen to understand that since the upcoming call is an “international call”, it cannot be done by organizations like DOT, TRAI, Police, RBI, Customs, UIDAI etc.
According to the Ministry of Communications, one of the major service providers has already implemented it in its network and others are in the process of doing so.
To deal with the threat of international fake calls reaching Indian citizens, the Department of Telecommunications has asked the Telecom Service Providers (TSP) to stop traffic from international carriers who are sending fake CLI call traffic in India repeatedly in India. .
Providers like Airtel and BSNL have blocked more than 20 such carriers/aggregators who were giving fake international calls.
“Recently launched communication partner app has provided the facility to report fraud calls on the fingers of citizens. Increases ease of reporting. ” Department of Telecommunications.
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