{"id":976862,"date":"2025-11-27T10:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976862"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T05:33:30","slug":"new-dot-guidelines-explained-how-sim-misuse-can-get-you-punished-check-safety-guidelines-for-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/27\/new-dot-guidelines-explained-how-sim-misuse-can-get-you-punished-check-safety-guidelines-for-users\/","title":{"rendered":"New DoT guidelines explained: How SIM misuse can get you punished \u2013 Check safety guidelines for users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine getting a message from an unknown number, only to realise that the SIM card behind it is registered under your identity \u2014 and now linked to a cybercrime. It sounds bizarre, but according to the Department of Telecom (DoT), this scenario is becoming all too real. <\/p>\n<p>In a fresh advisory issued on Monday, the DoT warned mobile subscribers that they could face legal trouble if a SIM obtained in their name is misused for fraud, impersonation or any other illegal activity \u2014 even if someone else used it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine getting a message from an unknown number, only to realise that the SIM card behind it is registered under your identity \u2014 and now linked to a cybercrime. It sounds bizarre, but according to the Department of Telecom (DoT), this scenario is becoming all too real. In a fresh advisory issued on Monday, the DoT warned mobile subscribers that they could face legal trouble if a SIM obtained in their name is misused for fraud, impersonation or any other illegal activity \u2014 even if someone else used it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976862","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}