The Ministry of Home Affairs has setup the ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center’ (I4C) to deal with all types of cyber crimes in the country. The ‘Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System’ was launched in the year 2021 under the I4C to prevent immediate reporting of Financial Fraud and rigging of money by cyber criminals.
The Union Minister said that so far more than Rs 3,431 crore has been saved in more than 9.94 lakh complaints. He said that the government and telecom service providers have prepared a system to identify and block international calls coming from fake Indian numbers.
Kumar said that international fake calls have been made by cyber criminals in recent cases of fake digital arrest, Fedex scam, calling government and police officers etc. Instructions have also been issued to telecom service providers to block such international fake calls.
A Cyber Fraud Mitigation Center (CFMC) has been established in the I4C, where representatives of major banks, financial intermediaries, payment aggregators, TSPs, IT intermediaries and law enforcement agencies of the Law Enforcement agencies are working together for immediate action and cooperation to deal with cyber crime.
In collaboration with banks and financial institutions, I4C has also started a suspicious registry of cyber criminals identified. The government has also launched a new feature called ‘Report and Check Suspect’, which gives people the option to find the collection of I4C of those identifying cyber criminals through ‘suspect search’.
