Indian Cybercrime Coordination Center Helps Reduce Scam, Spoofed Calls By 97 Percent, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel

The central government is getting success in preventing misuse of telecom resources for cybercrime and financial fraud. The system installed by the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Center (I4C) has reduced by about 97 percent of the fraudulent calls. Minister of State for Communications, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, “The system of identifying and blocking the fraudulent international calls showing India’s mobile numbers was launched last year and has got good results. About 1.35 million calls were identified within a day of its start.” On March 3 this year, about four lakh calls with fraud were identified and blocked. This shows that this system has fallen by about 97 percent of the income -winged calls.

The Telecom Department (DOT) has created an online digital intelligence platform (DIP) to share information related to the misuse of telecom resources with stakeholders. About 560 organizers have been associated with this system. These include central security agencies, police of 35 states, telecom service providers and I4C. The I4C was formed by the Ministry of Home Affairs to deal with the cybercrime.

Recently, I4C and Dot blocked at least 17,000 WhatsApp accounts of foreign hackers. Its goal is to destroy foreign criminal networks and increase the digital security of the country. Last year, the Ministry of Home Affairs formed an inter-ministry committee to deal with the increase in organized cybercrime from countries of Southeast Asia, such as Cambodia, Philippines, Laos and Myanmar. About 45 percent of cyber financial frauds in the country is from Southeast Asia. These crimes have grown more complex and big. This causes a lot of damage to the victims. The I4C has taken several steps to destroy the infrastructure that these hackers use. I4C investigation has revealed that cyber criminals to implicate people in their nets, games, games, dating apps. Cryptocurrency and forged trading offer platforms. They often trap people through social media.