Government of India is taking steps against spam calls.
Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Friday urged people not to accept mobile phone calls from “unknown numbers” and said the measures taken by the ministry have resulted in a significant reduction in spam calls and cyber frauds.
Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnav on Friday urged people not to accept mobile phone calls from “unknown numbers” and said the measures taken by the ministry have resulted in a significant reduction in spam calls and cyber frauds.
People should never pick up calls made from unknown numbers. I request every citizen to answer calls only from numbers (telephone/mobile) that they recognise. He was replying to a question about spam calls and cyber frauds.
Vaishnav said his ministry has recently launched the ‘Sanchar Saathi’ portal to prevent spam calls and cyber frauds. He said that over 40 lakh wrong SIMs and 41,000 wrong ‘Point of Sale’ agents have been blacklisted.
He said that the use of artificial intelligence has helped a lot in reducing these cases.
The minister said that people should answer unknown numbers only when an identification message has been sent from such callers.
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