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Govt Plans To Hunt Spammers, Voice Phishing Via New Platform

The Communications Ministry on February 15 released a statement promising measures to bust spam and financial frauds done through phone calls and text messages. The ministry is working on platform for facilitating reportage of such frauds. Setting up of a new Data Intelligence Unit to aid coordination between all stakeholders in enforcement is also on the chart. The move is linked to the government’s plan to curtail telecom Vishing in… read-more

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 - 10:29 AM / by Harsh Vardhan

Tags: Department Of Telecommunications, Spam calls, Law Enforcement Agencies, Data Intelligence Units, Jamtara, Mewat

Courtesy: Hindustan Times

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Truecaller's New Feature To Inform Users About Reason Of Call

Truecaller has introduced three new features - 'Call Reason', 'Release SMS scheduling’ and 'Message Translation’ - in its latest update on October 21. Benefitting both the sender and the receiver, 'Call Reason' will allow the former to convey objective of the call while enabling the latter to check what the call is about: Business, personal or emergency. The feature aims to assist receivers in prioritising the calls, and help callers to… read-more

Wed, 21 Oct 2020 - 03:47 PM / by Nitesh Kumar Singh

Tags: Spam calls, Caller Identification, truecaller, Telecom

Courtesy: Brifly Exclusive