Verification Of Sim Card Dealers Is Mandatory To Curb Cyber Crime Sanchar Saathi Portal Is Launhed To Help Citizen

No More Black Simcards: To curb the growing cybercrime, the Central Government has taken a big step on the last day and has made police verification mandatory for the shopkeepers ie distributors selling SIM cards. Now whoever sells you the SIM will have a complete account of it with the government and for doing wrong, the government will immediately catch the shopkeeper and the concerned person. The verification of distributors will be done by the licensee or telecom operator. Whoever breaks this rule, the government can take legal action and impose a fine of 10 lakhs against him.

 

Facial based biometric approved for e-KYC

 

Government has approved facial based biometric for e-KYC while taking SIM card. Now you can get sim card through your face also. Along with this, the scan of the QR code has been implemented to know the basic details of the customers so that the printed Aadhaar card is not misused. That is, now the shopkeeper will get all the information by scanning the QR code of your Aadhaar card, he does not need to give you the printed Aadhaar card. If a distributor is found involved in wrongdoings, the government can cancel his license for 3 years. At present, the shopkeepers have 12 months time for registration, after which the government will take action against those operating illegally.

 

Sanchar Saathi portal also launched

 

The Central Government has also launched the Sanchar Saathi portal where a user can know how many SIM cards are registered in his name. Also, here you can block the SIM card, report it in case of mobile theft and block or report fake numbers. About 114 crore active mobile connections have been checked with the help of ‘Sanchar Saathi’ portal and ASTR tool, in which the following things have been found-

• Over 66 lakh suspicious mobile connections have been detected
• Over 52 lakh mobile connections have been disconnected due to non-reverification
• Over 67000 Point of Sale (POS) have been blacklisted
• Around 17000 mobile handsets have been blocked
• Over 300 FIRs have been registered against over 1,700 Point of Sale (PoS)
• Over 66000 WhatsApp accounts blocked and around 8 lakh bank/wallet accounts used by fraudsters frozen