Govt Blocked 1,700 Skype IDs And 59,000 Whatsapp Accounts Used For Digital Arrest Fraud | Know-how Information
Whatsapp Account Blocked: The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a wing of the Ministry of Residence Affairs, has recognized and blocked greater than 1,700 Skype IDs and 59,000 WhatsApp accounts used for digital fraud, Lok Sabha was knowledgeable on Tuesday.
Union Minister of State for Residence Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar additionally said that the ‘Citizen Monetary Cyber Fraud Reporting and Administration System,’ launched below I4C in 2021, permits instant reporting of economic frauds to stop the siphoning off of funds by fraudsters and to this point, over Rs 3,431 crore has been saved in additional than 9.94 lakh complaints.
“The I4C has pro-actively recognized and blocked greater than 1,700 Skype IDs and 59,000 WhatsApp accounts used for digital fraud,” Kumar mentioned in response to a written query.
As of November 15, 2024, greater than 6.69 lakh SIM playing cards and 1.32 lakh IMEIs, as reported by police authorities, have been blocked by the federal government.
The minister additional defined that to strengthen the mechanism for addressing cyber crimes, together with digital fraud, the central authorities and Telecom Service Suppliers (TSPs) have developed a system to determine and block incoming worldwide spoofed calls that show Indian cell numbers, making them seem as if they originate inside India.
Kumar famous that such spoofed calls have been utilized by cyber criminals in latest circumstances of faux digital arrests, FedEx scams, and impersonation as authorities or police officers.
Instructions have been issued to TSPs to dam such incoming worldwide spoofed calls. Moreover, a State-of-the-Artwork Cyber Fraud Mitigation Centre (CFMC) has been established at I4C, the place representatives from main banks, monetary establishments, fee aggregators, TSPs, IT intermediaries, and regulation enforcement companies from States and UTs collaborate to make sure instant motion and seamless cooperation in tackling cybercrime.
The minister mentioned a suspect registry of identifiers of cyber criminals has been launched by I4C on September 10, 2024 in collaboration with banks and monetary establishments and has launched a brand new function ‘Report and Test Suspect’ on the portal cybercrime.Gov.In. This facility supplies residents with a search choice to go looking I4C’s repository of identifiers of cyber criminals by means of ‘suspect search’.
