Govt takes steps to curb multiple ways of cyber fraud: Devusinh Chauhan

The government has taken proactive steps such as launching the Sanchar Saathi portal to keep citizens in the loop about mobile connections issued in their names to even driving mass consumer awareness campaigns through the regulator to stop different methods of cyber-fraud, including misuse of headers and message templates of principle entities (PEs).

“As on date, among outcomes of the Sanchar Saathi portal are that 55.52 lakh mobile connections taken on fake/forged documents were disconnected, 1.32 lakh mobile handsets were blocked for involvement in cyber-crime /financial fraud and 13.42 lakh suspected mobile connections reported by citizens were disconnected failing re-verification,” Devusinh Chauhan, minister of state for communications, told Parliament Wednesday.