A suspect registry of identifiers of cyber criminals has been launched. (Representational picture)
New Delhi:
The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a wing of the Ministry of Home Affairs, has recognized and blocked greater than 1,700 Skype IDs and 59,000 WhatsApp accounts used for digital fraud, Lok Sabha was knowledgeable on Tuesday.
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar additionally said that the ‘Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System,’ launched underneath I4C in 2021, allows quick reporting of economic frauds to stop the siphoning off of funds by fraudsters and up to now, over Rs 3,431 crore has been saved in additional than 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 Providers (TSPs) have developed a system to establish and block incoming worldwide spoofed calls that show Indian cellular numbers, making them seem as if they originate inside India.
Kumar famous that such spoofed calls have been utilized by cyber criminals in latest instances of pretend digital arrests, FedEx scams, and impersonation as authorities or police officers.
Directions have been issued to TSPs to dam such incoming worldwide spoofed calls. Additionally, a State-of-the-Art 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 quick 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 Check Suspect’ on the portal cybercrime.gov.in.
This facility supplies residents a search possibility to go looking I4C’s repository of identifiers of cyber criminals by ‘suspect search’.
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