{"id":976473,"date":"2025-11-25T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976473"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:55:22","slug":"trai-bans-over-21-lakh-fraud-numbers-has-important-advice-for-phone-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/trai-bans-over-21-lakh-fraud-numbers-has-important-advice-for-phone-users\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI \u2018bans\u2019 over 21 lakh fraud numbers, has &#8216;important&#8217; advice for phone users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a public advisory in the fight against fraud and spam class. The regulator says that it has disconnected and blacklisted more than 21 lakh mobile numbers and approximately one lakh entities involved in sending spam and fraudulent messages in the last one year. It also urged mobile phone users to not just block fraud callers but report spam calls and SMS through the official TRAI DND App. It emphasised that simply blocking numbers locally on a device is not sufficient to stop fraudulent activity at its source.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when people report fraud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a public advisory in the fight against fraud and spam class. The regulator says that it has disconnected and blacklisted more than 21 lakh mobile numbers and approximately one lakh entities involved in sending spam and fraudulent messages in the last one year. It also urged mobile phone users to not just block fraud callers but report spam calls and SMS through the official TRAI DND App. It emphasised that simply blocking numbers locally on a device is not sufficient to stop fraudulent activity at its source. What happens when people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}