Mumbai\/New Delhi: The telecom regulator has imposed penalties collectively amounting to Rs 35 crore on eight operators including Bharti Airtel<\/a>, Vodafone Idea<\/a> (Vi) and Reliance Jio<\/a> for allowing cybercriminals to issue fake SMSes to dupe digital payment users.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s penalties are on various counts of violation of the Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulation, documents accessed by ET showed.

The other companies penalised are Videocon,
Tata Teleservices<\/a>, Quadrant Teleservices and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.

The highest penalty of Rs 30.1 crore was imposed on BSNL, which failed to respond to
Trai<\/a>’s show-cause notices and produce performance-monitoring reports, followed by Rs 1.82 crore on Vi, Rs 1.41 crore on Quadrant and Rs 1.33 crore on Airtel.

The move may be a boost for digital payment companies spearheaded by Paytm, which are embroiled in a tussle with the telecom industry in an ongoing case in the Delhi High Court.

At a hearing in September, the court had asked Trai to act against service providers violating regulations to curb spam calls and text messages, as reported by ET.

Paytm had contended that telecom operators had been lax in monitoring the issuance of
SMS headers<\/a> to telemarketers, which allowed fraudsters to manipulate their customers. SMS headers are unique IDs through which commercial text messages are sent.

Noida-based Paytm’s stance was mirrored by peers such as PhonePe and MobiKwik in an intervention plea filed in September.
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The regulator, in separate orders to the companies, said that BSNL, Vi, Jio and Airtel even misreported the count of unsolicited calls and messages on their networks. Trai noted that as of November 23, about 223,000 headers of various principal entities were registered on a new system aimed at improving oversight.

“The telecom companies will definitely dispute this fine in the court, but I don’t expect any positive outcome because the regulator has done its independent investigation, so Paytm seems to have an upper hand clearly,” said a high court lawyer following the case.

All business entities that send promotional and transactional SMSes must register their headers and content on a blockchain-based platform operated by telcos. This will prevent spam SMSes, including fraudulent ones, being delivered without user consent and registration.

However, Trai’s case-by-case investigations showed that telcos had not been diligent in monitoring the type of communication being sent and thus violated the regulator’s code of practice.

Typically, fake headers and messages are disguised as coming from banks or payment executives to secure private details from unsuspecting customers to gain access to their bank accounts and siphon funds. Such frauds have proliferated during the lockdown months in tandem with the growing number of first-time digital payment users.

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假的短信:火车打点球BSNL, Airtel Jio,沃达丰的想法

电信监管机构实施集体惩罚总计35卢比等八个运营商Bharti Airtel沃达丰(Vi)和依赖Jio让网络罪犯发布虚假的数字支付短信来欺骗用户。

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孟买和新德里:电信监管机构实施集体惩罚总计35卢比等八个运营商Bharti Airtel,沃达丰的想法(Vi)和依赖Jio让网络罪犯发布虚假的数字支付短信来欺骗用户。

印度电信监管机构的处罚是电信的各种项违反商业沟通客户偏好的规定,访问的文件等。

其他公司处罚Videocon,塔塔电信业务象限电信业务、国营,Bharat Sanchar Nigam说有限公司和Mahanagar电话尼噶的有限公司。

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30.1卢比的最高刑罚是对BSNL,未能回复火车说出理由通知和生产性能监视报告,紧随其后的是1.82卢比在Vi, 1.41卢比Airtel象限和1.33卢比。

此举可能会促进电子支付公司由Paytm牵头,卷入了一场争斗的电信行业在一个正在进行的情况下在德里高等法院。

在9月举行的听证会,法院已要求火车对服务提供者违反法规行为遏制垃圾邮件电话和短信,据等。

Paytm曾声称,电信运营商在监控不严的发行短信头电话销售,这允许骗子来操纵他们的客户。短信头是唯一的id通过商业短信发送。

Noida-based Paytm的立场被同行如PhonePe和镜像MobiKwik干预9月答辩申请。

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监管机构,在不同的订单给公司,说BSNL, Vi, Jio误报甚至Airtel主动调用和消息的计数在他们的网络。火车指出,截至11月23日,大约有223000头各种主要的实体被注册在一个新系统旨在改善监督。

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“电信公司肯定会争论这在法庭罚款,但我不指望任何积极的结果,因为监管机构已完成了独立调查,所以Paytm似乎有优势很明显,“高等法院律师情况后说。

所有业务实体发送促销和事务短信必须登记他们的标题和内容blockchain-based平台上运营的电信公司。这将防止垃圾短信,包括欺诈的、未经用户同意和登记。

然而,火车的个案调查显示,电信公司没有勤奋监测通信发送的类型,因此违反了监管机构的代码的练习。

通常情况下,假消息header和伪装成来自银行或支付高管获得私人细节毫无戒心的客户进入他们的银行账户和虹吸基金。这种欺诈行为激增期间封锁个月随着越来越多的首次数字用户付款。

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Mumbai\/New Delhi: The telecom regulator has imposed penalties collectively amounting to Rs 35 crore on eight operators including Bharti Airtel<\/a>, Vodafone Idea<\/a> (Vi) and Reliance Jio<\/a> for allowing cybercriminals to issue fake SMSes to dupe digital payment users.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s penalties are on various counts of violation of the Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulation, documents accessed by ET showed.

The other companies penalised are Videocon,
Tata Teleservices<\/a>, Quadrant Teleservices and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.

The highest penalty of Rs 30.1 crore was imposed on BSNL, which failed to respond to
Trai<\/a>’s show-cause notices and produce performance-monitoring reports, followed by Rs 1.82 crore on Vi, Rs 1.41 crore on Quadrant and Rs 1.33 crore on Airtel.

The move may be a boost for digital payment companies spearheaded by Paytm, which are embroiled in a tussle with the telecom industry in an ongoing case in the Delhi High Court.

At a hearing in September, the court had asked Trai to act against service providers violating regulations to curb spam calls and text messages, as reported by ET.

Paytm had contended that telecom operators had been lax in monitoring the issuance of
SMS headers<\/a> to telemarketers, which allowed fraudsters to manipulate their customers. SMS headers are unique IDs through which commercial text messages are sent.

Noida-based Paytm’s stance was mirrored by peers such as PhonePe and MobiKwik in an intervention plea filed in September.
<\/p>

Read also<\/h4>
<\/a><\/figure>
How Vodafone Idea, Jio, Airtel &amp; BSNL executing world&#39;s largest blockchain use case to curb pesky calls, SMS<\/a><\/h5><\/div>
<\/a><\/figure>
Telemarketers cry foul as telcos hike bulk SMS fees by upto 30%<\/a><\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
The regulator, in separate orders to the companies, said that BSNL, Vi, Jio and Airtel even misreported the count of unsolicited calls and messages on their networks. Trai noted that as of November 23, about 223,000 headers of various principal entities were registered on a new system aimed at improving oversight.

“The telecom companies will definitely dispute this fine in the court, but I don’t expect any positive outcome because the regulator has done its independent investigation, so Paytm seems to have an upper hand clearly,” said a high court lawyer following the case.

All business entities that send promotional and transactional SMSes must register their headers and content on a blockchain-based platform operated by telcos. This will prevent spam SMSes, including fraudulent ones, being delivered without user consent and registration.

However, Trai’s case-by-case investigations showed that telcos had not been diligent in monitoring the type of communication being sent and thus violated the regulator’s code of practice.

Typically, fake headers and messages are disguised as coming from banks or payment executives to secure private details from unsuspecting customers to gain access to their bank accounts and siphon funds. Such frauds have proliferated during the lockdown months in tandem with the growing number of first-time digital payment users.

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