India’s telecom watchdog on Tuesday directed service suppliers to cease all promotional calls from unregistered callers and blacklist them because it seems to be to sort out a surge in spam and phishing calls that has seen individuals lose thousands and thousands of rupees.
The federal government has been seeking to clamp down on the spike in such calls together with these the place scammers pose as representatives of companies like FedEx and Blue Dart and extract delicate monetary info by sending phishing hyperlinks within the pretext of retrieving misplaced packages.
“All promotional voice calls from the unregistered senders/unregistered telemarketer utilizing Telecom Assets shall be stopped instantly,” the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India stated in an announcement shared by the federal government.
Such unregistered callers will probably be blacklisted for as much as two years, the assertion stated, including that telecom service suppliers would wish to submit updates on motion taken on rip-off callers on the first and sixteenth of each month.
(Reporting by Nandan Mandayam in Bengaluru; Modifying by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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First Printed: Aug 13 2024 | 5:54 PM IST
