A senior Ahmedabad police official informed of such a DoT circular said that the new rule would help the police bypass an elaborate re-verification process initiated by the DoT whenever a list of recommended blacklisted numbers was sent to the DoT.
A senior Ahmedabad police official informed of such a DoT circular said that the new rule would help the police bypass an elaborate re-verification process initiated by the DoT whenever a list of recommended blacklisted numbers was sent to the DoT.
“Because of extensive phone frauds, subscribers were now reluctant to provide their KYC details whenever a genuine telecom service provider called up for re-verification. This left the service providers with no option except sending someone physically to the location of the subscriber, which was proving to be a costlier affair,” says a senior DoT official.
The circular stated that if an official lower to the rank of the SP sent a list of numbers to be blocked, the elaborate re-verification process would be followed.
Since 2020, nearly 1.27 lakh gullible citizens from the state have lost Rs 814.81 crore of their hard-earned money and life savings to phone scamming cyber criminals. In the past three years, the CID Crime cybercell unit has reported 30,019 mobile numbers used by scammers to the DoT to be blocked.
So, for every five people conned in an hour, only one ‘fraud’ mobile number is blocked, making controlling cybercrime a Himalayan<\/a> task. In 2022, the DoT took down some 1,500 pan-India mobile phone numbers reported from Gujarat.
According to CID crime officials, most of these numbers were registered in Mewat, Alwar, Bharatpur, Meerut, Ghaziabad<\/a>, Nadia and rural areas of West Bengal.
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