Over 1,700 Skype IDs and 59,000 WhatsApp accounts used for digital fraud have been recognized and blocked by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a unit beneath the ministry of house affairs.
Union minister of state for house affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar informed the Lok Sabha that the ‘Citizen Monetary Cyber Fraud Reporting and Administration System,’ launched beneath I4C in 2021, permits immediate reporting of monetary frauds to cease funds from being siphoned off by fraudsters.
He stated that, it has helped save over ₹3,431 crore throughout 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 stated 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 current instances of pretend 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 rapid motion and seamless cooperation in tackling cybercrime.
The minister stated 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 characteristic ‘Report and Verify Suspect’ on the portal cybercrime.gov.in.
This facility gives residents a search possibility to go looking I4C’s repository of identifiers of cyber criminals by ‘suspect search’.
With PTI inputs
