Find Out Unauthorised Phone Numbers Active On Your Name And Get Them Disabled With DoT Released Portal TAFCOP
New Delhi, 24th June 2021: Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has taken several measures to ensure proper allocation of telecom resources by Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) to subscribers and protect their interests in ensuring reduction of frauds. As per existing guidelines, individual mobile subscribers can register up to nine mobile connections in their name.
The DoT has released a portal known as The Telecom Analytics for Fraud management and Consumer Protection or TAF-COP for people to discover unauthorised mobile numbers active in any individual’s name however aren’t utilized by them or are without their knowledge.
This website has been developed to help subscribers, check the number of mobile connections working in their name, and take necessary action for regularising their additional mobile connections if any. However, the primary responsibility of handling the Customer Acquisition Form (CAF) lies with the service providers.
The new portal will assist individuals with distinguishing the number of mobile connections active in their name. After figuring out the unauthorised numbers, individuals can request to block the numbers that are issued on their name however now no longer utilized by them. Users trying to pick out the numbers getting used to their name must go to https://www.tafcop.dgtelecom.gov.in/ and input their active mobile numbers and then they may get hold of a one-time password (OTP.)
The branch will then send the consumer an SMS through which they may get to know the number of mobile connections running on their names. Consumers can go to the portal and record the numbers which are not utilized by them or are required. The telecom service provider will then block or deactivate the numbers. The consumers can go to the portal and record the numbers which are not utilized by them or now no longer required. Once the motion is taken through the user, the telecom service provider will block or deactivate the unauthorised numbers.
Customers will be then furnished ticket IDs with which they can follow the advancement of the activity. The telecom office dispatched the entrance back in April “Considering expanding episodes of unapproved utilization of one’s subtleties by others for taking versatile SIM cards and abusing them for illicit or unlawful purposes.”As of now, the office is accessible just to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The help will be stretched out to different circles in a staged way.
Whereas, the government have launched a public helpline – 155260, that will help forestall online cheats where clients lose cash. When casualties approach the helpline monitored by the state police, a police administrator notes down the extortion exchange subtleties and essential individual data of the guest and submit them as a ticket on the Citizen Financial Cyber Frauds Reporting and Management System. The ticket then, at that point gets raised to the concerned banks, wallets, traders, contingent upon whether these are the casualty’s bank or the bank or wallet wherein the cheated cash has gone.
