NEW DELHI: Around 6.7 lakh SIM cards and 1.3 lakh IMEIs suspected to be linked to cybercrimes have been blocked by govt till Nov 15 this year, home ministry informed Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Detailing the mechanisms put in place to deal with cybercrimes, junior home minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said the central govt and telecom service providers (TSPs) have devised a system to identify and block incoming international spoofed calls made by cybercriminals in recent cases of digital arrests, “FedEx scams” and impersonation as govt or police officers, among others.
“Directions have been issued to TSPs for blocking of such calls,” Kumar said in a written reply to a question in the House.
The ministry said ‘Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System’, under I4C, was launched in 2021 for immediate reporting of financial frauds and to stop siphoning off funds by fraudsters. So far, a financial amount of more than Rs 3,431 crore has been saved in more than 9.9 lakh complaints.