New Delhi: The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) has successfully identified and blocked over 3,962 Skype IDs and 83,668 WhatsApp accounts linked to Digital Arrest scams, as reported to Parliament on Wednesday. Operating under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the I4C has partnered with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to initiate a caller tune campaign aimed at raising awareness about cybercrime and promoting the Cyber Crime Helpline Number 1930 along with the ‘National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal’ (NCRP).
This caller tune is being aired in various regional languages and is broadcasted 7-8 times daily by telecom service providers (TSPs). Additionally, the government and TSPs have established a mechanism to detect and block incoming international spoofed calls that display Indian mobile numbers, making them seem as if they are originating from within India. As of February 28, the government has blocked over 781,000 SIM cards and 208,469 IMEIs, according to reports from police authorities, as stated by Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, in a written response to the Rajya Sabha. TSPs have been directed to block these incoming spoofed calls.
The Central government has also rolled out a detailed awareness initiative regarding digital arrest scams. The ‘Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System’, established under I4C in 2021, allows for the prompt reporting of financial frauds to prevent the diversion of funds by scammers. To date, over Rs. 4,386 crore has been saved from more than 1.336 million complaints. Efforts are ongoing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to identify mule accounts, with over 1.9 million such accounts detected and transactions worth Rs. 2,038 crore thwarted in the battle against cybercrime, as noted by Union Home Minister Amit Shah last month. A mule account is a bank account utilized by criminals to transfer stolen funds, and the account holder is referred to as a “money mule.”
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