Operators will be obliged to block calls from fake landline numbers
Telecommunications operators will be obliged to automatically block calls from abroad from bogus allegedly landline (city) Russian numbers. This follows from the amendments to the law "On Communications" developed by the Ministry of Communications (Izvestia has familiarized itself with them). Also, the call will be terminated "if there is no information about the subscriber number or unique identification code of the subscriber who initiated this connection."
The spoofed traffic allegedly coming from landline numbers accounts for 8-10% of the total volume of fraudulent phone calls, according to Igor Bederov, director of the T.Hunter Investigations Department. Calls from fake direct numbers (so-called ABCs) are indeed used by fraudsters to simulate calls from government organizations and large companies, he notes. Domestically, this problem has been practically solved - thanks to stricter regulation and the introduction of anti-fraud systems by Russian companies: that's why calls from attackers are now flowing to messengers. But for foreign fraudsters and operators, Russian legislation is not relevant, so a measure of legislative regulation is needed, the expert points out.
Fraudsters calling from abroad will no longer be able to communicate with their victims using fake city numbers (in Moscow, for example, they start with the codes 495 and 499), a specialist in inter-operator interaction explained to Izvestia. Such numbers, as a rule, are used by government organizations, banks and large companies, which causes subscribers to trust more than mobile numbers, and even more so the numbers with unfamiliar codes of foreign countries, a source in the communications market told Izvestia.
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