30,000 Sim cards activated using fake papers in Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: How were cybercriminals able to procure hundreds of mobile connections for a long time in order to make those fraudulent calls to rob people? Nipping the problem in the bud, and going past telecom service providers, the department of telecom in first such effort closely collaborated with the state cyber cell of Gujarat CID crime and the ATS’s special operations group (SOG) for a state-wide joint operation against the sim sellers or point of sale (PoS) issuing sim on fake documents.