DoT suspends 2 telemarketers for sending fraud messages

Mumbai: The telecom department has suspended the operations of two telemarketing entities – V-con Intelligent Security, which is part of the Videocon Group, and OneXtel Media – who were found responsible for sending 55.5 million fraudulent SMSes to telephone users since January 2024.

“In the interest of safeguarding the citizens from cybercrime/financial frauds, all the TSPs (telecom service providers) are directed to: immediately suspend these two RTMs (registered telemarketers)…(and) lodge police complaint against them for misusing DLT platform for sending malicious and phishing SMSes,” the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said in the direction dated July 15.