Whatsapp Account Ban: To Tackle Telecom Fraud, The Government Announced on Friday that it has disconnected over 3.4 Crore Mobile Connections and Blocked 3.19 Lakh IMEBERS Thiury Numbers Through Portal.
The department of telecommunications (dot) stated that, leveraging ai and big data, it also also deactivated 16.97 Lakh Whatsapp Accounts. Adding further, more than 20,000 bulk sms sendrs were blacklisted under the dot’s ‘Sanchar Saathi’ Initiative, according to Dr. Pemmasani chandra sekhar, minister of state for communications and rural development, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
Through the sanchar saathi portal, the government facilitates citizens to report suspended fraud communications on Chakshu Facility. Dot then Carries Out Several Analysis and takes action on such telecom resources that have been linked to misuse, said the minister.
Rather than acting on individual reported suspected fraud communications, dot uses the crowd sourced data to carry out analysis and to zero down on Misuse of Telecom Resources. The department uses ai based tool and big data analysis to identify suspected mobile connections take on fake documents.
Further, Dot and Telecom Service Providers (TSPS) have devised a system for Near Real Time Identification and Blocking of International Spoofed Calls Displaying Indian Mobile Numps that apple From India, said the minister.
Meanwhile, Telecom Service Providers Have Blacklisted 1,150 entities/individuals and disconnected more than 18.8 Lakh Resources. The Actions LED to a significant Reduction in the Complaints Against Unregisterdered TeleMarketers (UTMs) – from 1,89,419 in August 2024 to 1,34,821 in January 2025.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Amened The Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations (TCCCPR), 2018 on February 12.
A Customer Can Now Make a Complaint About Spam/UNSOLICITED Communication (UCC) Within Seven days of receiving spam as compared to earlier three-deay time limit.
The time limit for taking action by the access provides against the UCC from Unregister Senders has been reduced from 30 days to 5 days to 5 days, according to the amendments. To ensure prompt action against the senders of UCC, The Criterion for Taking Action Against them has been revised and made more stringent. (With IANS Inputs)