Govt rolls out new system to block fraudulent calls originating from abroad

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has launched a two-tiered system to detect and block incoming scam and spam calls from international numbers.

In the first phase, telecom service providers (TSPs) will attempt to prevent international spoofed calls from phone numbers belonging to their own network. The second layer will deal with stopping international spoofed calls made from subscribers of other telecom operators.