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Airtel expands alert coverage to int'l calls, SMS to combat rising overseas spams, fraud callsBharti Airtel has introduced new features to combat spam, including expanded detection for international calls and SMS, addressing a 12% ri...
Global scam calls surge in India as fraudsters exploit cheap international routesScammers are exploiting India's low international termination charges (ITC) to flood the country with spam calls via overseas networks. Loc...
DoT blocked 90% incoming international spoof calls after launch of new prevention system spotThe Department of Telecommunications, with telecom service providers, has effectively blocked 1.35 crore spoofed international calls within...
DoT pushes telcos to roll out caller ID feature for mobile phones urgentlyThe Department of Telecommunications has instructed telecom operators to promptly implement the Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) service on...
Govt warns subscribers against unfamiliar international callsThe Department of Telecom has alerted subscribers about unfamiliar international calls. It encourages caution when answering calls not star...
Telecom gear sales under PLI scheme top ₹68,700 cr: DoT secretary Neeraj MittalIndia's telecom PLI scheme has achieved ₹68,700 crore in sales, including ₹13,007 crore in exports, within three and a half years. The sche...
Telemarketing entities should be regulated to curb spam: Telcos to TraiTelecom companies advocate for government licensing of telemarketing entities and SMS service resellers to curb spam messages. They argue t...
Power & authority come in way of checking spam on OTT platformsDoT and Trai are struggling to curb spam and scams on OTT platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal. While WhatsApp is cooperating to s...
OTT platforms like Meta, Google and WhatsApp to step up due diligence to curb pesky calls, phishingWhile a few models to check spam and phishing are being worked on, the regulator does not want to disclose the details so as not to alert f...
Scammers target WhatsApp users with phishing attemptsThe problem is that while telcos and the regulator have been working to create artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions to check spam c...
Getting random calls on WhatsApp from international numbers? Here are the results of a surveyLocalCircles survey on WhatsApp spam calls: 46% of users surveyed confirmed that they have been facing an onslaught of audio or video calls...
WhatsApp to introduce ‘classifiers’ to identify spam callsThe Meta-owned instant messaging platform hopes to completely stop spam calls over the next two days, a source said.
IT ministry to send notice to WhatsApp on international spam calls issue: Rajeev ChandrasekharThe digital platforms are responsible and accountable for ensuring the safety of 'digital nagriks', Chandrasekhar said, adding that the gov...
'Jamtara Global': Indian WhatsApp users flooded with spam callsThese spam calls with international numbers, mostly from African and Southeast Asian countries, along with fake messages from unknown users...
Symantec warns against spam messages about the Zika virusA blog post on the Symantec website said that citizens in Brazil, the country most affected by the Zika virus have seen the first set of sp...
- Hong Kong named world's spam capital
Hong Kong is under siege from legions of "zombies" attacking people with spam and leaving in their wake a trail of destruction costing mill...
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