Authorities advises residents on calls impersonating DoT

Authorities on Friday issued an advisory in opposition to calls being made within the title of Division of Telecommunications (DoT) whereby recipients are being issued varied threats. These callers are threatening folks by saying that their cell numbers will probably be disconnected or their cell numbers are being misused in some unlawful actions.

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The DoT has additionally issued advisory about WhatsApp calls from overseas origin cell numbers (like +92-xxxxxxxxxx) impersonating authorities officers and duping folks.

Earlier this month, the DoT launched ‘Chakshu’ facility on Sanchar Saathi portal below the DoT’s ‘Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP)’ for coordination among the many stakeholders to curb misuse of telecom assets in cyber-crime and monetary frauds.

“Cyber criminals by means of such calls attempt to threaten/ steal private info to hold out cyber-crime/ monetary frauds. The DoT doesn’t authorise anybody to make such calls on its behalf and has suggested folks to remain vigilant and requested to not share any info on receiving such calls,” the DoT stated on Friday.

It has suggested residents to report such fraud communications at ‘Chakshu-Report Suspected Fraud Communications’ facility and added that such proactive reporting helps DoT in prevention of misuse of telecom assets for cyber-crime, monetary frauds and plenty of such actions.

Additional, residents can verify the cell connections of their title at ‘Know Your Cellular Connections’ facility of Sanchar Saathi portal and report any cell connection not taken by them or not required, it stated.

The DoT has additionally suggested residents to report at cyber-crime helpline quantity 1930 in case of already a sufferer of cyber-crime or monetary fraud.

Earlier this month, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Communications and IT had knowledgeable that the DoT has 35-lakh headers analysed and out of that 1.9 lakh headers have been disabled, which is yet one more degree of unsolicited industrial communication (UCC or pesky calls) sort of cleaning.

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He had knowledgeable that throughout such platforms, frauds value an estimated ₹1,008 crore have been prevented within the final 9 months and ₹1,000 crore whole cash of Indian residents have been saved.