Team Blitz India
LONDON: The UK Government has introduced a national anti-fraud strategy targeting digital frauds and taking the fight right to the underground criminals.
“Fraud now accounts for over 40 per cent of crime. It costs us nearly £7 billion a year and we know these proceeds are funding organised crime and terror. New technologies are making these scams easier to do and harder to police,” stated Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week.
“It’s time to take the fight to the scammers and fraudsters and put an end to these crimes which can devastate lives and livelihoods within seconds,” he added in his statement.
In a bid to stop frauds and scams, the Government will outlaw SIM farms, or devices that can be loaded with hundreds of SIM cards and are controlled from a computer. Such devices allow criminals to scam texts to thousands of people at the same time.
The Government will also work with UK’s communications regulator Ofcom to stop more cases of number spoofing.
